The 2020 Democratic circus is coming to town. Republicans should just watch and wait
By ANDREW MALCOLM
March 12, 2019 01:00 AM
A recent cartoon showed President Donald Trump watching a TV screen with an immense mob marching down a road. No, says an aide, that’s not another migrant caravan. Those are Democratic candidates.
With Trump’s base stubbornly loyal but stuck in the lower 40-percent range and the president seemingly uninterested in expanding it, Democrats and media see the billionaire as vulnerable in just 86 weeks.
The field of ambitious opposition wannabes is likely en route to exceeding the 16 Republicans who split the party’s opposition to Trump in 2016.
Although a few such as former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Sherrod Brown faced reality and ruled out a run in such an impossibly splintered field, more are expected to announce, including the big donkey in the party’s room, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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