As we continue forward with the Democratic Party presidential primaries in the United States, we’ve narrowed the field of candidates down to essentially 4 front-runners. Of course, there are many others who are still in the race, but it’s difficult to see any of them change positions moving forward as the primaries progress. This 2020 election cycle started out with over 1,000 registered candidates (literally) across parties with 20 candidates making it to the first Democratic debates on June 26th – 27th, 2019. There have been numerous candidates drop out of the race and a couple of additions as we’ve continued from 2019 into 2020.
Unfortunately, the diversity of the original candidate pool was lost when hopefuls Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Julián Castro, and finally Andrew Yang dropped out of the race. Deval Patrick also recently dropped out of the race after the New Hampshire primaries, but not many people knew he was running to being with. After the (failed) Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire primaries, we’re left with the following list of candidates.
- Joe Biden, 77
- Michael Bloomberg, 77
- Pete Buttigieg, 38
- Tulsi Gabbard, 38
- Amy Klobuchar, 59
- Bernie Sanders, 78
- Tom Steyer, 62
- Elizabeth Warren, 70
In terms of diversity, we have 5 white men, with Bernie Sanders being Jewish, and 3 white women, with Tulsi Gabbard being Samoan-American and a practicing Hindu. Thankfully, many of the candidates have had previous political experience which is more than you can say about our current commander-in-chief. Buttigieg and Gabbard also has previous military experience with boots-on-the-ground involvement. Again, this is a large step above President Trump.
One thing that we want to focus on as the next primary battles play out is the backgrounds of each of the remaining candidates and their records. We’ll be posting articles with key data points and other factual information that is relevant to the candidates’ policies and stances on important past and current issues. It’s our hope to be able to display this data in an unobtrusive way which makes it clear when searching for particular issues important to you. We will always try to be 100% fact-based and all of our data will be referenced to the most upstream source possible. If there are any discrepancies, please report them with your data source, and we will research the findings and make any necessary corrections.