Open response poll: anybody not running/talking about running you would like to run?

[Recursion]

I know we've got a damn full bench as it is, but it's still early.

I'd really like Jon Tester to run, personally.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. FDR, but he's "alive-challenged"

[Amimnoch]

4. Dammit Dennis. You owe me a keyboard.

Friggin coffee through the nose moment there.

[watoos]

2. Absolutely, Andrew Gillum was on Bill Maher last night,

He is the real deal. He is smart, articulate and has charisma. Maher asked him a leading question about how Democrats have to distance themselves away from being branded Socialists. Gillum totally disagreed, he said that's not the way to fight right wing propaganda, running away from a word, a label. He said we need to explain the issues we are for, explain what we stand for step by step and most importantly we need to explain how we are going to help working class Americans.

Andrew Gillum would have won in Florida had they counted all of the votes. Rick Scott, a Medicare thief, won because of election fraud.

[Awsi Dooger]

14. Explaining socialism does not work

I hope Andrew Gillum is Example A in that regard and we aren't stupid enough to believe we can explain issues just because a handful of them poll well individually.

In totality the word is a disaster. I watched DeSantis use it successfully here in Florida. It was not election fraud. It is simply much easier for an extreme right nominee to be elected in swing states than someone who is considered far left. I made that point here and on MyDD and elsewhere beginning more than a decade ago. Once both parties started picking from the edges it could only favor the GOP. Gillum was rejected by 46% of the electorate as too liberal while only 35% in the same exit poll said DeSantis was too conservative. Obviously that is asinine. The percentages should be reversed. But perception is everything and it is the reality we face.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. John Tester! Gavin Newsome, Sheldon Whitehouse, Brown! nt

[Amimnoch]

5. Michele Obama.

If for no other reason but to watch orange hitler and the fascist tRumpublicon party’s heads collectively explode.

[marylandblue]

6. I wish Brown would change his mind.

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. +1. He of course can't do so at this point. But I'm sorry he's not in it. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Al Gore! He will always be the president of my dreams!

[Recursion]

10. He's younger than Biden

And I agree with you. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

[rurallib]

8. Al Franken

ETA - Would love to see Al tear into Trump in the debates

[Funtatlaguy]

16. This. I'd love the Dem debates.

He should start out and say...here’s exactly what I was accused of by several women both on this stage and off of it...and here’s the exact truth...I (explain it all)

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. Mitt Romney. Jeb(!) Bush. Although technically not in a Democratic primary.

But I'd really like to see somebody primary this moron and explain to his base why they shouldn't vote for him.

[WeekiWater]

11. John Kerry.

Too old but very few possess his depth.

[Recursion]

12. I don't know him

What's his background?

[jalan48]

13. Tammy Duckworth.

[Recursion]

17. *swoon*

Be still my heart, I would love that

[jalan48]

19. I think she would be a great President. She's been tested and has shown her inner strength.

[peggysue2]

18. I thought maybe Gavin Newsom would run

Although he only just became a Governor. Once he endorsed Kamala Harris I figured that was a done deal; he'll stay put. Andrew Gillum was on Maher's show last night. He sounded like a candidate. My husband was really impressed.

As for me? We have a bounty of candidates to choose from, so I'm quite content.