Long List of Top Democrats Have 2020, and Money, on Their Minds
WASHINGTON
— Aides to Senator Kamala Harris of California say that her
fund-raisers in Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons this summer have been
all about helping Democrats in 2018. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s
allies say his new political group is building an email list so he can
communicate directly with his supporters about the future of the party
and the country. And Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio says he has been
traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire in part because “I like being out around the country.”
But
the packed fund-raising calendars, brisk political spending and trips
to early primary states suggest that in fact a shadow campaign for the
party’s 2020 presidential nomination is already well underway.
In
interviews, more than three dozen leading Democratic donors,
fund-raisers and operatives agreed that it was the earliest start they
had ever seen to the jockeying that typically precedes the official
kickoff to the campaign for the party’s presidential nomination. It is a
reflection of the deep antipathy toward President Trump among
Democrats, and the widespread belief that the right candidate could
defeat him, but also of the likelihood that the contest for the
nomination could be the longest, most crowded and most expensive in
history.
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