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nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 06:35 PM Mar 2017

Freshmen Democratic US Senators likely to be on the 2020 Democratic Ticket.

1)Chris Van Hollen-MD
Current Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2018 election cycle. If every vulnerable incumbent Democratic US Senator wins or vulnerable open Democratic held US Senate seat stays in the Democratic column. Van Hollen's standing in the National Democratic Party rises.
Previously served in the US House of Representative for 14 years (2003-2017). While in the US House, Van Hollen was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the 2008 and 2010 election cycle.
Previously served in the Maryland State Legislature, MD House 1991-1995, MD Senate 1995-2003.
Van Hollen has a progressive voting record
State Legislature- raised the tobacco tax, prohibit oil drilling in the Chesapeake Bay area,mandate trigger locks on guns, increase funding for education and Healthcare.
US House- Introduced legislation to fund the No Child Left Behind and Individuals with Disability Education Act. Introduced legislation to finance clean energy and energy efficiency projects.
2)Kamala Harris-CA
Previously served as CA Attorney General from 2011-2017, San Francisco District Attorney from 2004 to 2011. Kamala Harris will be the 4th female,2nd African American, and 1st Indian American to be on the National Ticket.
3)Tammy Duckworth-IL
Previously served in the US House of Representative from 2013-2017, served in the Illinois and United States Veterans Affairs Department, Duckworth is a disabled Iraq War Veteran losing both legs and an arm-Max Cleland-GA.

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Freshmen Democratic US Senators likely to be on the 2020 Democratic Ticket. (Original Post) nkpolitics1212 Mar 2017 OP
I'd be glad to vote for all of them. Speaker Pelosi brought Hortensis Mar 2017 #1

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. I'd be glad to vote for all of them. Speaker Pelosi brought
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 08:20 PM
Mar 2017

Van Hollen along when he was in the house, raising him from position to position so that he was eventually well set to run for retiring Sen. Mikulski's seat. Just looked him up to see what he's up to. As senator he'll be chair of our DCCC during the 2018 election. And he has "progressive" creds.

Tammy Duckworth is going to be an important power for saving the VA, as she has been. The destructionists have been shooting at her for some time.

Kamala Harris, an extremely competent pragmatist, and another star on the rise who replaced Barbara Boxer on retirement. Today she was speaking out against Trump's attempt to cut funding to the Legal Services Corp, which pays for legal representation for people who could not afford to hire an attorney otherwise.

Good people we can be glad of. Such an enormous contrast from the extremist incompetents dark money has been putting in on the right.



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