… Who will emerge as the favorite among Democrats: an establishment candidate, like Hillary Clinton; or a progressive alternative, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)? Will the 2020 contest again result in a near-even draw between those two sides? More important, who will Democrats nominate?
What’s remarkable about a new USA Today-Suffolk University poll is how it approaches that question, asking Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents about a battery of possible 2020 contenders but from a unique angle: How excited were the poll respondents about a possible candidacy — or how much did they hope that particular candidates don’t run? CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post