{"id":24126,"date":"2019-01-20T00:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24126"},"modified":"2019-01-20T00:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:43:28","slug":"who-will-be-the-democratic-candidate-in-the-us-presidential-election-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24126","title":{"rendered":"Who will be the Democratic candidate in the US presidential election of 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A good American friend of mine &#8211; a Democrat &#8211; believes that Donald Trump is best opposed by Bernie Sanders in the US presidential election of 2020. I ventured to suggest to him that Trump will not be the Republican candidate and Sanders will not be the Democrat candidate. So will be standing for the two parties?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I think that the Republican candidate could well be Mike Pence following the resignation of Trump when his Vice-President automatically takes over the top job and the GOP decides to stick with the new man in the White House as its candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who will be the Democratic candidate? I really have no idea. It&#8217;s just too soon to say. But I really don&#8217;t think it will be Bernie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently seven have declared that they are seeking the candidacy and at least 23 others have been mooted for the position. Who are these 30 hopefuls? Check them out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2019\/jan\/17\/2020-election-candidates-list-democrats-primaries-trump-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-beto-o-rourke-running?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good American friend of mine &#8211; a Democrat &#8211; believes that Donald Trump is best opposed by Bernie Sanders in the US presidential election of 2020. I ventured to suggest to him that Trump will not be the Republican candidate and Sanders will not be the Democrat candidate. So will be standing for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24131,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24126\/revisions\/24131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}