Jay Inslee Is Running

Who? He's the governor of Washington State:

Inslee, 68, is the first governor to enter the Democratic contest and has the longest political résumé of anyone in the race.

In 1992, after two terms as a state legislator, he was elected to represent a largely rural, Republican-leaning congressional district in central Washington. In Congress, Inslee attracted national attention by voting for the 1994 assault weapons ban, immediately making him a target for the GOP.

...Inslee was a reliable liberal vote and a member of the center-left New Democrats. He focused most on climate and environmental issues; in 2007 he published “Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy,” a book about ways to transition the country from dependence on fossil fuels to renewable energy.

He also kept one eye on Washington, running for governor in 2012 and winning a narrow victory over a popular Republican attorney general. Inslee spent his first term presiding over a divided state government, cutting budget deals with a Republican state Senate and instating a moratorium on the state’s death penalty.

Inslee was comfortably reelected in 2016 and joined the loud resistance to President Trump, bringing the state into lawsuits to stop a ban on refugees and immigrants from some Muslim-majority countries. But Inslee’s time in Olympia entered a new phase in 2018, after a special Senate race gave Democrats full control of the state government. (From the Washington Post; read more here.) 

I've moved Inslee to the "I'm Running list."

Note: I recently split the Potential list into two sections, those who are still doing some of the things potential candidates do, and those whose names were mentioned as potential candidates, but aren't doing anything that looks like running. 

Potential Democratic Candidates, in alphabetical order:

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. Terry McAuliffe (Former governor of Virginia)
9. Jeff Merkley (Oregon senator)
10. Seth Moulton (Congressman from Massachusetts) 
11. Chris Murphy (Connecticut senator)
12. Beto O'Rourke (Former Texas Congressman, ran a close race for a U.S. senate seat from Texas) added Sept. 13
13. 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)
14. Jay Inslee  (3/1/19)

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
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: 612