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Crowded US Democratic Field for 2020 Campaign.. Here’s All About It


Wed 20 Feb 2019 | 07:29 AM
Yassmine Elsayed

By: Yassmine ElSayed

CAIRO, Feb. 20 (SEE) - Democrats are expected to have fierce battle within their block as many more among them have announced their candidacy to the presidential elections 2020.

With nine confirmed candidates, and multiple “maybes,” the Democratic field for the 2020 presidential nomination is crowded.

Here is a look at who is officially running—in the order they entered the race—followed by those who have formed committees, and those seen as likely to run:

John Delaney

The former congressman from Maryland, 55, started two publicly listed lending companies before running for office in 2012. The first generation in his family to go to college (he stresses his electrician father’s union membership on the campaign trail), he was the very first Democrat to announce he was running back in July 2017. He’s already visited every county in Iowa, the first state in the primary contest, attempting to jumpstart his national campaign from there.

Andrew Yang

A former tech entrepreneur, 44, who started a nonprofit to promote startups, Yang entered the race Nov. 6, 2018 on essentially a single issue: protecting Americans from job-stealing robots. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, he sells himself as the opposite of Trump—an ego-free Asian man who likes math.

Julián Castro

After growing up in a poor San Antonio neighborhood, Castro, 44,—and twin brother Joaquín—went on to earn Ivy League degrees and take on careers in national politics. Onetime mayor of San Antonio, Castro was US secretary of housing and urban development under Barack Obama. That experience, along with his mother’s activism with Latino groups, is a central part of the narrative he’s pitching to voters. He entered the race on Jan. 12, 2019.

Kamala Harris

The child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris, 54, became a prosecutor in Oakland, California, the San Francisco district attorney and finally California’s attorney general before winning her US Senate seat in California. She stepped into the race Jan. 21 on a morning talk show.

Cory Booker

The former Newark, New Jersey mayor, 49, launched his campaign with an appeal to America’s common purpose and a focus on social and racial equality on Feb. 1, 2019. A Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law graduate who gained celebrity-politician status thanks to his early use of social media. The US senator from New Jersey has been criticized for being close to wealthy elites and for media-friendly stunts.

Tulsi Gabbard

The first Hindu member of Congress, Hawaii, 37, representative controversially met with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and sided with Russian president Vladimir Putin against Obama on US intervention in Syria. Strongly opposed to regime-change wars after her experience fighting in the Iraq war as part of the National Guard, she speaks about fighting “radical Islam.” A onetime Hawaii state representative, she supported Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Democratic primary campaign. On Feb. 2 she entered the race she calls a “fight for the soul” of America.

Elizabeth Warren

The former Harvard law professor, 69, became a household name as a US senator from Massachusetts when she spearheaded congressional oversight of the financial industry bailout. She’s promising to restore the US to a place where people can succeed if they “work hard and play by the rules” by holding billionaires and big corporations accountable. She formally entered the race Feb. 9, when she suggested Trump could be in jail by 2020.

Amy Klobuchar

The former corporate lawyer, 58, the first woman to be elected a Minnesota senator, has established a reputation as a matter-of-fact centrist, tackling kitchen-table issues like drug pricing. Her unflappable questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh earned her kudos from farther-left Democrats. She held an outdoor rally in a blizzard on Feb. 10 to announce she was running, aiming to highlight her “grit” and the “friends and neighbors” who showed up to cheer.

Bernie Sanders

A Brooklyn-born self-described democratic socialist, Sanders, 77, was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981 by a margin of just three votes. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1990, and the US Senate in 2006, where he remains today—the longest-serving independent senator in the history of the US. He challenged Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries in 2016  and entered the 2020 race on Feb. 19, promising “change from the bottom up.”