The Pundit’s Guide To Handicapping The Democratic Nomination Is the Democratic field as strong as it appears? Or is it as weak as the Republican field of 2016 when an outsider thundered onstage and wiped all Republicans away?By Alex Castellanos
August 27, 2019 “2016 really is the deepest GOP field in a very, very long time. In fact, it isn’t even close.†— Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics, Jan. 29, 2015
Five U.S. senators, a former cabinet secretary, a visionary tech entrepreneur, a polyglot mayor-soldier-intellectual, and a crusading former congressman will be on the stage for the third Democratic presidential debate, hosted by ABC on September 12 in Houston. Add to that a former vice president.
Is the Democratic field as strong as it appears? Or is it as weak as the Republican field of 2016 when an outsider thundered onstage and wiped all Republicans away? A fair estimation leads me to think the latter.
A few insufficiently confused friends have asked me to take look at the car crash that is the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination and assess each candidate’s prospects. Fortunately, I’m a resident of Washington, where a pundit’s imprecise predictions do not limit his employment potential.
So, with the disclaimer that previous results are no guarantee of future performance, we begin, examining the silver-tongued politician who hailed Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is clean and bright and articulate,†that roiling cauldron of political enthusiasm, the presumed Democratic front-runner until he isn’t.
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