Holder has three big areas of interest: redistricting, civil rights, and beating Donald Trump by all means necessary. Tough to say. Landrieu served as the mayor of New Orleans from to It seems unlikely. Like the other mayors contemplating a run, Landrieu considers himself a problem-solver.
Cuomo is the governor of New York. He was formerly the secretary of housing and urban development under Bill Clinton. Though he's long toyed with the idea, Cuomo said in November , "I am ruling it out. One can adopt a Freudian analysis related to his father's unfinished business, or one can note that Cuomo thinks he's got more management experience and success, including working with Republicans, than any Democratic candidate.
Cuomo's defenders bristle that he doesn't get enough credit, but his work with Republicans has infuriated Empire State Democrats without winning any real GOP friends. Garcetti is the mayor of Los Angeles. Garcetti flirted with the idea, visiting South Carolina and naming a hypothetical Cabinet full of mayors, but said on January 29, , that he would not run. Garcetti was reelected in a landslide in , but he had no apparent national constituency.
Come on. Why does she want to run? Who wants her to run? Pundits, mostly. Can she win the nomination? See above. Haha, no way. Attention, power, self-aggrandizement. Some very loud, very devoted fans.
He filed for reelection the day of his inauguration. Build the wall, Keep America Great , etc. Consistently about 35 to 40 percent of the country; a small majority consistently says he should not. While his low approval ratings overall have stoked talk of a primary challenge, Trump remains very popular among Republican voters, and as president has broad power to muscle the GOP process to protect himself.
You may have heard that in December he became the third president to ever be impeached. He dropped out on March 18, , after Trump effectively clinched renomination. Why did he run? This logo is so cool. After a strong run in the James Gang, Walsh joined the Eagles as lead guitari—wait, no, wrong guy. Walsh said on August 24, , that he would run against Trump, but dropped out on February 7 after drawing just 1 percent in the Iowa caucus. Why was he running?
Once a strong Trump backer, Walsh has undergone a strange political transformation over the past three years and now routinely attacks Trump, whom he sees as insufficiently conservative and too deferential to Russia.
Clearly, not many people. Absolutely not. Sanford was governor of South Carolina from to and a U. Sanford announced his campaign launch on September 8, but suspended it on November Sanford has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump. Lots of reporters who are eager to make bad Appalachian Trail jokes. Not many, though. Kasich recently finished up two terms as governor of Ohio, previously served in the U. House, and ran in the GOP primary. Kasich has long wanted to be president—he ran, quixotically, in But Kasich has styled himself as a vocal Trump critic, and sees himself as an alternative to the president who is both truer to conservative principles and more reliable and moral.
Maybe some dead-end Never Trump conservatives. Kasich previously ruled out an independent or third-party run, but has since reopened that door. John Kasich bought a Roots CD and hated it so much , he threw it out his car window.
George Will laughed at him. In November, Hogan became the first Republican to be reelected as governor of Maryland since After some flirtation, he ruled out a run on June 1, Hogan is a pragmatic, moderate Republican who has won widespread acclaim in a solidly Democratic state—in other words, everything Trump is not. As long as Trump was running, no. The Arizonan, a former U. House member, decided not to run for reelection to the Senate in When he took a contributor role with CBS on January 23, , he said he was not running.
Liberal pundits. A Green Party founder and longtime environmental activist, Hawkins ran for New York governor as a Green in , , and He did not win. On July 11, Hawkins was officially named the Green Party nominee.
Greens and Socialists. The former CEO of the coal company Massey Energy, Blankenship was convicted of conspiracy to violate mine-safety laws over an explosion that killed 29 miners in He ran for U. Senate in West Virginia in Blankenship is billing himself as a man who can actually do what Trump promised. The men share many political views as well as a general coarseness and bigotry.
Beats us. Amash has represented a Grand Rapids, Michigan-area seat in the U. On April 28, , Amash announced an exploratory committee to run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, but he decided against a run on May Amash has cut a path as a strong libertarian in the House, especially in recent months as a critic of President Trump.
On July 4, he announced he was leaving the Republican Party, feeding presidential speculation. Libertarians, duh. The failson scion of a Rhode Island Republican family, Chafee served in the Senate as a Republican — ; as governor, as an independent and then a Democrat —15 ; and then ran for president as a Democrat in He filed papers to run for the Libertarian Party nomination on January 5, but dropped out on April 7.
Given that he dropped his bid even without any serious rivals in the race, apparently not. That guy who used to sell you over-roasted coffee. Schultz stepped down as CEO of Starbucks in No, seriously. Schultz has offered some vague platitudes about centrist ideas and bringing the country together, but most of it aligns with standard Democratic positions. Donald Trump. The downside is that you still have to win votes eventually. A typical politician, basically.
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And if we knock it out of the park, to win three. And so we are also laying the groundwork for the future - not just for me as a candidate, but for all independent candidates going forward.
And if he doesn't pull it off? Mr Pierce says he has offers. I mean basically everywhere I go they're like, Brock, you could actually fix this. Like if you don't become president next year, would you try and run our state, would you run our city? Call me November 4th. But I made a decision, you know, to live my life in service, and so however I can be of greatest service I'm prepared to do that work well. One factor that unites independent candidates is that they haven't had to please a party majority to get a platform - so they run as themselves, on the issues that really speak to them personally.
Professionally he's worked as a computer programmer and in tech support, but he's also an ardent social justice campaigner on issues affecting Native Americans and people of colour.
His goal is to be an alternative candidate for voters who don't feel a kinship with the Trump or Biden tickets. Mr Charles is of Navajo heritage, an identity which has deeply shaped his candidacy and his view of what America should be. The land upon which Washington DC was built belonged to the Piscataway people.
And I am humbled to be living on these lands, on their lands, and I want to honour them as the host people. In the early s, Mr Charles chose to move his family to a remote home on a Navajo reservation, "because I wanted to experience the more traditional life".
They would stay for 11 years. There was no running water, no electricity in our community, our neighbours were rug weavers and shepherds. The family prepared to cook on a camping stove, haul water, and live by candle-light.
What they hadn't anticipated was how marginalised they would feel. Almost no one came to build relationships with us," says Mr Charles. He made a resolution to reach outwards and foster understanding instead of growing bitter. Now he says he's fighting for a truly inclusive, modern America which rejects inequality.
We can't just say it and wish it was so: we actually have to go in and change some things that this nation was founded on, such as the racism, the sexism and the explicit white supremacy. Why some Americans' votes count more than others. A really simple guide to the US election.
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