Just Saying | Michelle Obama is the only one who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 – if only she would run
- Yonden Lhatoo looks at an unimpressive field of Democratic presidential hopefuls to argue there is no chance of unseating the incumbent, unless they bring out a former first lady with formidable credentials
Another day, another Democratic would-be presidential candidate.
Seriously, what’s up with everyone and their mum clambering over each other to secure the nomination to take on US President Donald Trump in the 2020 election?
You can bet many, if not most, Americans have no idea who some of these people are, considering that last year, just before the midterm elections, about a third of registered voters did not even know the name of their party’s candidate for Congress.
From unrecognisable faces with unusual names like Pete Buttigieg and John Hickenlooper to better-known politicians such as Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, the battle field is swarming with aspirants who – let’s face it – don’t stand a chance against the unstoppable force and immovable object that is Trump right now.
Senator Warren from Massachusetts has locked horns in public with Trump before to her detriment. He regularly ridicules her dodgy Native American heritage claims, having mockingly nicknamed her “Pocahontas”, and while Warren doesn’t stoop to his level of racist taunts, she somehow comes off the worse for it as some kind of pearl-clutching victim.
