The Democrats have almost as many candidates positioning themselves for 2020 as the RepubliCONs did at the corresponding point in the 2016 cycle, when establishment Jeb Bush (counterpart to the Democrats’ Joe Biden) was the odds-on favorite for the nomination and then-Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn) was ridiculed for warning that Trump, who everyone else was calling a joke who had no chance, should be taken seriously.
At this point in the 2016 cycle, (April of 2015, when eventually nomination winner Trump had not yet even announced, just as Biden has not officially announced yet), the total number of declared and likely candidates was 25:
Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Scott Walker, Kelly Ayotte, Nikki Haley, Peter King, Susana Martinez, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Brian Sandoval
The Democrats have almost as many candidates positioning themselves for 2020 as the RepubliCONs did at the corresponding point in the 2016 cycle, when establishment Jeb Bush (counterpart to the Democrats’ Joe Biden) was the odds-on favorite for the nomination and then-Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn) was ridiculed for warning that Trump, who everyone else was calling a joke who had no chance, should be taken seriously.
At this point in the 2016 cycle, (April of 2015, when eventually nomination winner Trump had not yet even announced, just as Biden has not officially announced yet), the total number of declared and likely candidates was 25:
Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Scott Walker, Kelly Ayotte, Nikki Haley, Peter King, Susana Martinez, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Brian Sandoval