{"id":24648,"date":"2019-05-23T21:51:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24648"},"modified":"2019-05-23T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:57:07","slug":"and-now-there-are-24-seeking-to-be-the-democratic-candidate-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24648","title":{"rendered":"And now there are 24 seeking to be the Democratic candidate in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve already blogged four times on the ever-growing field of those who wish to be elected as the Democratic candidate in the United States presidential election of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest &#8211; and tallest &#8211; to declare is New York mayor Bill de Blasio. This brings the current field to an incredible 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, we have not had any hustings yet, let alone actual primaries or caucuses, so it very early days. But &#8220;Rolling Stone&#8221; magazine has helpfully ranked the 24 in the order the publications thinks the candidates currently stand in terms of popularity with Democrat supporters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden &#8211; with lots of support from older Democrats &#8211; is clearly in the lead with Bernie Sanders &#8211; who has lots of backing from young voters &#8211; in second position. Then come two female candidates: Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll find the full ranking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/2020-democrat-candidates-771735\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already blogged four times on the ever-growing field of those who wish to be elected as the Democratic candidate in the United States presidential election of 2020. The latest &#8211; and tallest &#8211; to declare is New York mayor Bill de Blasio. This brings the current field to an incredible 24. Of course, we [&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-24648","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\/24648","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=24648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24650,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648\/revisions\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}