Friday, February 1, 2019

Cory Booker And Marianne Williamson

New Jersey senator Cory Booker has announced that he's a candidate for president:

And I initially missed this, but Marianne Williamson has made it official too:




I'm moving both of them to the I'm 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. Stacey Abrams (2018 candidate for Georgia governor) added 1/3/19
  2. Joe Biden (Former VP)
  3. Michael Bloomberg (Former mayor of New York City)
  4. Sherrod Brown (Ohio senator)
  5. Jerry Brown (former Governor of California)
  6. Steve Bullock (Governor of Montana)
  7. Mark Cuban (Businessman, owner of the Dallas Mavericks)
  8. Bill de Blasio (Mayor of New York City)
  9. John Hickenlooper (Governor of Colorado) 
  10. Eric Holder (Former Attorney General)
  11. Jay Inslee (Governor of Washington)
  12. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Actor) added Nov. 10
  13. Tim Kaine (Virginia senator, 2016 VP nominee)
  14. Joe Kennedy (Congressman from Massachusetts) added Nov. 10
  15. John Kerry (former Secretary of State, 2004 Democratic nominee) added Nov. 10 
  16. Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota senator)
  17. Mitch Landrieu (Mayor of New Orleans)
  18. Terry McAuliffe (Former governor of Virginia)
  19. Jeff Merkley (Oregon senator)
  20. Seth Moulton (Congressman from Massachusetts) 
  21. Chris Murphy (Connecticut senator)
  22. Beto O'Rourke (Texas Congressman, ran a close race for a U.S. senate seat from Texas) added Sept. 13
  23. Tim Ryan (Congressman from Ohio) added Sept. 8
  24. Bernie Sanders (Vermont senator, registered Independent, ran in 2016 primaries)
  25. Eric Swalwell (Congressman from California) added Nov. 8
  26. Mark Warner (Virginia senator) added Nov. 10
  27. Mark Zuckerberg (Businessman, founder of Facebook)
I'm RunningDeclared 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)
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

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

Richard Ojeda (1/25/19)

And one more thing. The Washington Post published a "Who's Running?" graphic:



Note that they've got Howard Schultz on the "Looking like a candidate" list, but otherwise their list of who's running tracks with mine.

Days until Election Day: 640

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