Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., may have scored some sweet #Resistance points for their respective efforts to destroy Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but not enough to make the base enthusiastic about either one of them running for president.
The same goes for Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former New York City mayor and newly baptized Democrat Michael Bloomberg, and two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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When presented with all of the above as potential candidates for taking on President Trump in 2020, self-identified Democratic and Independent respondents enthusiastically backed “None of the above,” according to a new Hill.TV American Barometer poll.
Ouch.
The poll, which surveyed 680 registered voters between Nov. 5-6, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, asked respondents to answer the question, “Who is your preference to become the Democratic nominee in the 2020 election for President?”
Respondents were then provided with a list of potential candidates. It included: Warren, Biden, Sanders, Booker, Harris, Bloomberg, Clinton, and “None of the above.”
“None” came in first place with 30 percent of the vote. Biden came in second at 25 percent. Sanders came in third with 18 percent of the vote. Clinton, who quite literally just ran for president, managed somehow to come in fourth place with 12 percent.
Warren and Harris both came in at just four percent. So much for those viral anti-Kavanaugh moments. Bloomberg performed just as poorly, which is actually not that bad considering he has kept a lower profile. Booker did the worst of them all, clocking in at just three percent. Well done, Spartacus.
In short, things aren’t off to a great start for the Democratic Party’s 2020 hopefuls.
Of course, to be fair, the survey is missing the two real stars we all know will end up being the Democratic Party’s 2020 front-runners: Cool suburban dad Beto O’Rourke and porn attorney Michael Avenatti.
When those two eventually go head-to-head in nationally televised debates, the Right will finally know what it was like for Democrats to watch the one-sided Trump vs. Jeb Bush fights. It’ll be brutal and there won’t be any refs to call the match early when Avenatti goes full cable news on O’Rourke’s bargain bin JFK routine.
This is the world we deserve.
