Candidates With Bold Ideas Are Surging In Democratic Primary

There is still a lot of time before the primaries actually begin, but the Democratic candidates are already fighting hard for every vote. Some are doing it by promising a return to “normal,” while others are calling for big, structural change to move our nation forward. So who has staying power and who is going to fizzle out? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins runs down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2020 Presidential candidates with Mike Figueredo, host of The Humanist Report.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well, let's, uh, let's move on to something that actually is worth, uh, you know, kind of, not necessarily fighting about but debating. And that is obviously this massive crop of, uh, candidates we've got right now in the Democratic Party. And, uh, you know, earlier in the show I actually spoke with Ben Dixon and, and it's true, there is a lot of, of vitriol on, on Twitter. You know, we, we see it, we see these people a lot of times wanting to relitigate 2016. They get, they get personal, they get ugly. And this is coming from everywhere. But there is plenty of room to have sane, rational debate about these people running for president on the democratic side. And it would be better to see people engaging in that kind of activity rather than just saying, nope, I'm, I'm never going to a, ever, ever listened to you because I don't like you. And now I don't like your candidate because I don't like you. I mean, we see that far too often. But that's the preface. And I do want to talk about the candidates right now. So we've had some good polls come out in this week. Uh, you know, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren tied for first in the Monmouth poll. Uh, Bernie's, uh, Biden, excuse me, uh, in third place. Just one point behind them. Other polls still showing Biden ahead. When do you think Biden's dropping out?

Man, I think I'm terrible at predictions, but if I had to guess, just based on the trajectory, I think he's going to be there until Iowa. I think he's hanging on until New Hampshire. I think that Super Tuesday is the day where this is really going to come down to like the top two, top three candidates. And it's kind of shaping up. Like, I don't want to speak too soon, but it seems like this is shaping up to be a race between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, which is fantastic. You know, these are the better candidates in the race. There's a lot of pretty solid candidates running, but um, you know, it would be nice to see Joe Biden drop out because out of all of the candidates, I feel like he would probably be the weakest choice against Donald Trump. And I understand that early polling is showing that he does perform relatively well against Trump, you know, in these hypothetical match-ups.

But at the same time Hillary Clinton did at this point in the race as well. And when it gets to that general election and you can no longer hide and you have to face the media, I just feel like we need someone who will excite the base, not go after Republicans and moderates. We need someone to recognize that we are in a polarized political environment. And what you have to do is play to your strength, get that base out, get them excited, register new voters. And really the people who can do that are the left wing candidates. So I really, the sooner the better. And you know, that's my response to Joe Biden in terms of when he's going to drop out. I don't know when he will drop out specifically, but, um, I just, you know, I see, I, I've said this on my program before, you know, we are all on the s s Biden ship and it's as big as the, and there's an iceberg straight ahead.

And look, this is the way I'm thinking about. Um, 2020 is not a presidential election. This is a supreme court election where Ruth Bader Ginsburg is hanging on, presumably for dear life.

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