Bernie Is Running

Senator Bernie Sanders has announced that he is once again running for president. (Read about it here.) Bernie is currently 77; if elected he would be 79 on Inauguration Day and 83 at the end of his first term, by far the oldest president ever.

I've moved Sanders to the "I'm Running" list. I'm also going to split the "Potential" list into two parts. As noted below, when I built the list I added anyone, anyone, from Mark Cuban to The Rock, who had ever been mentioned as a potential candidate. Now that the real campaign has started, with real candidates running real campaigns, I'm going to move Mark, The Rock and a few others to a "Probably Not Running" list.

Potential Democratic Candidates, in alphabetical order:

Reminder: Not every name on this list is "viable" as a future nominee or president, or even seriously interested in running, necessarily. It's just a list of every name I've ever seen mentioned, anywhere, as someone who might run in 2020.

1. Michael Bennet (Colorado Senator) added 2/10/19
2. Joe Biden (Former VP)
3. Michael Bloomberg (Former mayor of New York City)
4. Sherrod Brown (Ohio senator)
5. Steve Bullock (Governor of Montana)
6. Bill de Blasio (Mayor of New York City)
7. John Hickenlooper (Governor of Colorado) 
8. Jay Inslee (Governor of Washington)
9. Terry McAuliffe (Former governor of Virginia)
10. Jeff Merkley (Oregon senator)
11. Seth Moulton (Congressman from Massachusetts) 
12. Chris Murphy (Connecticut senator)
13. Beto O'Rourke (Former Texas Congressman, ran a close race for a U.S. senate seat from Texas) added Sept. 13
14. Eric Swalwell (Congressman from California) added Nov. 8

I'm Probably Not Running: Long shot candidates who don't appear to be doing any of the things an actual candidate must do: 

1. Stacey Abrams (2018 candidate for Georgia governor) added 1/3/19
2. Jerry Brown (former Governor of California)
3. Mark Cuban (Businessman, owner of the Dallas Mavericks)
4. Eric Holder (Former Attorney General)
5. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Actor) added Nov. 10
6. Tim Kaine (Virginia senator, 2016 VP nominee)
7. Joe Kennedy (Congressman from Massachusetts) added Nov. 10
8. John Kerry (former Secretary of State, 2004 Democratic nominee) added Nov. 10 
9. Tim Ryan (Congressman from Ohio) added Sept. 8
10. Mark Warner (Virginia senator) added Nov. 10
11. Mark Zuckerberg (Businessman, founder of Facebook)

I'm Running: Declared Democratic Candidates, in order of their announcement

1. John Delaney (7/28/17) 
2. Andrew Yang (11/6/17) 
3. Elizabeth Warren (12/31/18)
4. Tulsi Gabbard (1/11/19)
5. Julián Castro (1/12/19)
6. Kirsten Gillibrand (1/16/19)  
7. Kamala Harris (1/21/19)
8. Pete Buttigieg (1/23/19)
9. Howard Schultz (1/29/19) * Running as an Independent 
10. Marianne Williamson (1/30/19)
11. Cory Booker (2/1/19)
12. Amy Klobuchar (2/10/19)
13. Bernie Sanders (2/19/19)

I'm Not Running

Oprah Winfrey

Andrew Cuomo
Sheryl Sandberg, added Sept. 8
Jason Kander, added Oct. 17
Robert Iger, added Oct. 22
Michael Avenatti, December 4, 2018
Deval Patrick, December 5, 2018
Martin O'Malley, January 3, 2019
Luis Gutierrez, added January 7, 2019
Tom Steyer, January 9, 2019
Bob Casey, January 19, 2019
Eric Garcetti, January 29, 2019
Andrew Gillum, January 29, 2019
Mitch Landrieu: added February 11, 2019

I'm Not Running Anymore: Declared candidates who have dropped out

Richard Ojeda (1/25/19)

Days until Election Day: 622