The 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination sweepstakes players just keep showing up…..
This is NOT serious folks….
Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday did not rule out running for president in 2020, keeping his name among a growing list of prospective candidates vying to be the Democratic nominee.
Speaking at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Tuesday, Kerry was directly asked whether he would announced a presidential bid.
“I’m thinking about how the hell to get out from under that question fast,” Kerry joked.
But he went on to say that he was continuing to think about a possible bid.
“I’m not taking anything off the table,” Kerry said. “I haven’t been running around to the most obvious states, laying any groundwork or doing anything
“Am I going to think about it? Yeah, I’m going to think about it,” he continued.
Kerry, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 but lost to George W. Bush by 19 electoral votes. Kerry, 74, is one of an array of potential candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Cory Book of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California, and lawyer Michael Avenatti…..
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Losing Presidential candidates have been re-nominated by major parties before, but Richard Nixon is the only one in recent decades to have won on a second try.
1796 Thomas Jefferson (D-R); 1800 & 1804 won
1804 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Fed.); 1808 lost
1824 Andrew Jackson (D/D-R); 1828 & 1832 won
1824 Henry Clay (D-R); 1832 (Natl R) & 1844 (Whig) lost
1836 Wm H. Harrison (Whig); 1840 won
1840 Martin Van Buren; 1848 lost on Free Soil Party ticket
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) [won popular vote]; 1896 won
1896 Wm Jennings Bryan (D/People’s); 1900 & 1908 lost
1944 Thomas Dewey (R); 1948 lost
1952 Adlai Stevenson (D); 1956 lost
1960 Richard Nixon; 1968 & 1972 won