The warming up for 2020 has started

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What do Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have in common? They are all senators who voted against the reopening of the American government, despite the fact that their Democratic party had agreed to end the shutdown. They ignored the stall orders, because in 2020 they think they can make a chance to defeat Donald Trump. That is why they now want to resist their future opponent.

The expectation is that a large group of Democrats will present themselves for the presidential race in 2020 and that the competition will be murdered. Even though there are rumors about Oprah, the chances are that the party will choose someone with a lot of political experience. Then you will soon reach someone who plays in the spotlight through the Senate.

For the now 76-year-old Sanders this is no longer necessary: ​​he is known. During the Democratic primaries he fought a fierce battle with Hillary Clinton and managed to mobilize millions of voters- especially younger ones- which is very attractive for the party. But female candidates like Harris and Gillibrand have an edge on Sanders.

Elizabeth Warren, like Sanders, is known as too radical, so that many eyes are also focused on Booker, an enthusiastic African American who can act as Obama. However, the attack has already opened on him because of his sexual orientation. He still refuses to answer the question of whether he is gay, because he finds it irrelevant to his functioning.

But first, in November, the Democrats want to make their mark during the midterms by putting an end to the Republican majority in Congress. Then probably the ideal candidate to drive Trump out of the White House comes upstairs. Nevertheless, the voting around the shutdown already shows that this will be accompanied by a lot of internal struggle. All those potential Democratic candidates hardly ever give each other the light in the eyes.