Democrats eager to start gearing up for the 2020 presidential elections can take heart that every one of our polled candidates lead President Trump with former VP Joe Biden and Senator Sanders crushing it wth double digit leads.
A little noticed component of yesterday’s PPP poll must raise concerns for Republicans.
Jason Easle reports "Republicans Stunned As Poll Shows Joe Biden And Bernie Sanders Crurshing Trump In 2020,” in Politicususa:
PPP found, “Joe Biden 54/40, Bernie Sanders 52/41, Elizabeth Warren 48/43, Al Franken 46/41, and Cory Booker 45/42 in head to head matchups. Biden (56/33 favorability) and Sanders (53/36) are among the most popular political figures in the country. Voters are more divided on Warren (42/39) and Franken (34/34). Booker is not as well known nationally as the rest of this group yet, coming in at 27/24.”
The answer for Democrats in 2020 isn’t running a nearly 80-year-old Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. Sen. Warren will be 70 by the time the 2020 election rolls around, which means that she will be younger than Donald Trump, but she wouldn’t fit the contrast of youth that Democrats would hope to project to voters when potentially facing the nearly 75-year-old Trump. Sen. Franken will also be nearing 70 years of age by 2020, so while all of these figures are popular with the Democratic base, none of them really fit a message that Democrats are the diverse political party of the future.
While Easle notes the advanced age of these candidates, he fails to mention that most of the voters will be four years older as well. (Humor alert!)
Altough not everyone believes presidential polls done three and a half years from the election are that conclusive, this PPP poll adds to evidence that President Trump may be an unusually weak candidate for reelection.
What may be more relevant for Trump are the odds of his impeachment and not making it to the end of his term.