At Least 16 Lawmakers Are Running for President

“There’s a famous joke in Washington that most Senators look in the mirror and see a future president,” the Washington Post reports.

“That’s never really borne out in reality. The unwieldy cast of GOP presidential primary candidates in 2016 had 17 people running, only three of whom were sitting senators. Since 1960, only two senators, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, went straight to the White House from Capitol Hill.”

“But the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is already spilling over with members of Congress hoping to be the one to unseat Donald Trump. Not only are there expected to be an unheard of number of senators and representatives running, several are early front runners.”