Meet The Democrat Who Was The First To Declare A 2020 Presidential Bid

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https://www.northcountrypublicradio...-the-first-to-declare-a-2020-presidential-bid

Former Maryland Congressman John Delaney was in the 2020 presidential race before it even was one. The Democrat declared his candidacy in July 2017.

Delaney (@JohnKDelaney) tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that he first thought about running for president after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump.

“That moment made me say, ‘We have to think differently about everything,’ ” Delaney says. “We really need to move to a bit of a post-partisan world where we actually start solving problems and stop kind of living in a country where the political leaders act like half the country is entirely wrong about everything they believe and increasingly try to pit American against American.”

While he admits it’s impossible for Americans to agree on everything, Delaney says politicians should focus on what they actually do agree on, and get politics back to what it is meant to be: “a debate of ideas.”

I listened to his interview today on NPR and I like what I heard. He comes across as a moderate to me. However, I don't think he has much of a shot.

https://www.johnkdelaney.com/