Obama teams 2020 signals spark chatter among Dems

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emocrats are expressing concern that advisers and aides to former President Obama have already begun signaling which candidate they might support for the White House in 2020.
Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest confidantes, and David Simas, the CEO of Obama's foundation, have sent smoke signals urging former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to enter the race.

Simas, who once served as a top aide to Patrick, is an ardent supporter of Patrick, sources tell The Hill, while Jarrett has privately told friends that she would do what it takes to support him.

And Politico reported last month that Jarrett believes a President Patrick is "what my heart desires."

At the same time, friends of Jarrett's say that while she would love for Patrick to run, she is also open to other candidates.

Others in Obamaworld have quietly been buzzing about the excitement behind a potential Patrick run.

Axios's Mike Allen mentioned Patrick as a favorite in Obamaworld in his popular newsletter on Friday.

Other former aides close to Obama say they would support a run by former Vice President Joe Biden, if he decides to launch a bid in 2020.

Obama has not weighed in publicly on the next presidential race, and those around him have said he isn't looking to tip the scales and believes it is too early to back any one candidate.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obama-team’s-2020-signals-spark-chatter-among-dems/ar-AAraU9C?li=BBnb4R7&ocid=mailsignout

[Squinch]

1. Why would Democrats "express concern" that a Democrat named a candidate she would like

to see run?

The link just goes to the front MSN page, so I didn't read the rest of the article but this excerpt makes it seem like the article's author is stretching very hard to portray discord among Democrats.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Was confusing to me as well. nt

[LakeArenal]

3. Why aren't we concentrating on 2018? nt

[delisen]

4. If no one willing to build state parties or confront

election hacking, Russian interference and voter suppression, it does not matter who the Democratic nominee is in 2020 Republicans will gain in Congress and the on Supreme Court. Even if a Democratic president wins, the Republican congress will control the agenda

Politics is not magic.

Democrats lost a big part of their elected and appointed infrastructure from 2010 forward and ceded much territory. The Democratic Party of 2008 was strong. The Democratic Party of 2016 was considerably weaker.

The post-ACA victories by Republicans in 2010 accelerated their control of the vote by any means they chose, including immoral and illegal (voter suppression, gerrymandering, junk, hackable voting machine, propaganda, foreign money).


In politics the war is ongoing. The political "generals" who think they can focus their energy on winning a big battle every 4 years are wrong-because even if they win the presidency they will be blocked from moving ahead on their agenda.

We are in a tortoise-hare situation. Mitch McConnell, the guy some call the turtle, really is the Tortoise of Politics-no charisma, no, star-power, but he has been steadily winning the race.

[leftstreet]

6. +1

Nicely stated

[AngryAmish]

5. If we run a white candidate again we are doomed.

[JDC]

7. Preposterous on its face.

We need to run the best candidate, regardless of color.

[uponit7771]

9. Disagree, dems will come out for people who try to relate to them

[JimGinPA]

8. I Like Deval Patrick

He's among a number of good (younger) candidates I would happily support.