Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces 2020 presidential campaign
Source: CNN
Denver (CNN) Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday announced he is running for president, launching a 2020 campaign in which he will lean on his Western roots and decades of executive experience.
He made the announcement in a video titled "Standing Tall," which tracks Hickenlooper's life from laid-off geologist, to owner of a brew pub, to mayor of Denver and to governor, and touts the Democrat's experience in a variety of fields as a key reason he should be the person to take on President Donald Trump in 2020. Hickenlooper casts the President as a "bully" in the more than two-minute video.
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Democrats in Washington and in Colorado have pushed Hickenlooper to challenge Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, who is up for reelection in 2020. But Hickenlooper had said he dreaded the idea of being a legislator after years as an executive.
Far from a liberal firebrand, Hickenlooper believes that there is a portion of the Democratic primary electorate that is hungry for someone who is able to defeat Trump without getting into the gutter with him.
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)Will be backed by a huge majority to stop this trump hate group and fascist takeover from advancing any more. The American people have started realizing trump's bait and switching them into the poor house now after his and the gop tax scam is exposed for what it really is, a scam for the wealthy to make us pay for their huge tax windfalls now. This new candidate has just as much a chance as anyone else does now. Ignore their polls, they aren't to be trusted. just like trump and the gop , they cannot ever be trusted again.
brooklynite
(94,592 posts)He'll be making the announcement on GMA at about 8:30
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moreland01
(739 posts)We here in Colorado call him Gov. Frackenlooper for his undying support for Oil and Gas. If you haven't driven through eastern Colorado in a while, you'd be shocked by the never-ending oil rigs and fracking sites. I'm voting for whatever Dem ends up on my General Election ballot. But in the primaries, he's not my first choice.
elleng
(130,964 posts)Gumboot
(531 posts)Frackenlooper sold out the north eastern Front Range and Western Slope to drilling companies. Many folks there have lost their generations-old well water supplies, and cancers are on the rise.
Hick needs to disappear quietly.
CanonRay
(14,104 posts)Please correct me it I am wrong...it was a while ago.
irisblue
(32,980 posts)Hickenloopers friend there is a cause for concern for me.
Who are his other RW buddies?
irisblue
(32,980 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)nt