This thread will serve as the official list of Democratic candidates for the 2020 US Presidential election.

Presumtative Nominee

Name	Experience	Campaign Announcement date	Votes	Delegates
Joe Biden	Former Vice President of the United States (2009–2017) U.S. Senator from Delaware (1973–2009) Democratic candidate for president in 1988 and 2008	Campaign Campaign: April 25, 2019	11,562,964	1,435

Candidates who have suspended their campaign

Suspended during the primaries

Candidate	Date Suspended	Votes	Delegates	Has Endorsed?
Bernie Sanders	04/08/2020	8,267,627	984	Biden
Tulsi Gabbard	03/19/2020	176,052	2	Biden
Elizabeth Warren	03/05/2020	2,537,274	81	Biden
Michael Bloomberg	03/04/2020	2,420,790	55	Biden
Amy Klobuchar	03/02/2020	494,681	7	Biden
Pete Buttigieg	03/01/2020	854,426	26	Biden
Tom Steyer	02/29/2020	248,807	0
Deval Patrick	02/12/2020	19,584	0	Biden
Michael Bennet	02/11/2020	42,259	0
Andrew Yang	02/11/2020	108,115	0	Biden

Suspended before the primaries

Spoiler!

Candidate	State	Campaign	Date Dropped	Supporting Candidate?
John Delaney	Maryland	Campaign Campaign: July 28, 2017	01/31/2020
Cory Booker	New Jersey	Campaign Campaign: February 1, 2019	01/13/2020	Biden
Marianne Williamson	California	Campaign Campaign: January 28, 2019	01/10/2020	Sanders
Julián Castro	Texas	Campaign Campaign: January 12, 2019	01/02/2020	Warren
Kamala Harris	California	Campaign Campaign: January 21, 2019	12/03/2019	Biden
Steve Bullock	Montana	Campaign Campaign: May 14, 2019	12/02/2019
Joe Sestak	Pennsylvania	Campaign Campaign: June 22, 2019	12/01/2019
Wayne Messam	Florida	Campaign Campaign: March 28, 2019	11/20/2019
Beto O'Rourke	Texas	Campaign Campaign: March 14, 2019	11/1/2019	Biden
Tim Ryan	Ohio	Campaign Campaign: April 4, 2019	10/24/2019	Biden
Bill de Blasio	New York	Campaign Campaign: May 16, 2019	9/20/2019	Sanders
Kirsten Gillibrand	New York	Campaign Campaign: March 17, 2019	8/28/2019
Seth Moulton	Massachusetts	Campaign Campaign: April 22, 2019	8/23/2019
Jay Inslee	Washington	Campaign Campaign: March 1, 2019	8/21/2019
John Hickenlooper	Colorado	Campaign Campaign: March 4, 2019	8/15/2019	Bennet
Mike Gravel	California	Campaign Campaign: April 8, 2019	8/6/2019	Gabbard Sanders
Eric Swalwell	California	Campaign Campaign: April 8, 2019	7/8/2019
Richard Ojeda	West Virginia	Campaign Campaign: November 11, 2018	1/25/2019

Debate Schedule

Debate Qualifications

Beto raised $6.1 million in the first 24 hours, which is higher than Bernie did

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/beto-o-rourke-raises-6-1-million-first-day-topping-n984266

Glad to see he is doing very well. Ultimately I think this race will come down to Beto vs Biden vs Bernie. I really hope Beto wins it, he has the charisma to be a Obama imo. Its sad seeing all the Bernie squad going full attack on him.

I was seriously blown away from his 1 day take.  It shows a lot of promise for his campaign's longevity in keeping up with the bigger names that will draw lots of big donor money.

The attacks are definitely bothering me.  And not just on him but on Tulsi Gabbard and others.  With such a huge field of candidates and long way to go, attacking each other serves us no purpose at this point.  In fact, I'd truly prefer they stayed clean against each other because anything negative they say against each other will get used by Trump.  And could harm potential running mate pairing.

Yang is the only one who has my support at this point. His campaign was my first political donation.

I kind of hope Biden doesn't run.

I have a strong feeling that Beto will win this one.  Though, I'd prefer Bernie winning.  

Early going, I'd like a Sanders/Gabbard team. But it's so early and there is so much more to learn about each of them. I'm pretty open to most of them but I have written off Warren already. She has too much baggage to fight against now.

But what makes him charismatic? I have heard others say it, but no one can quantify it.
With Obama, it's obvious: he's one of the world's greatest speakers, and can put together great speeches. Beto lacks both these traits, all I see of him is a struggle to put together a coherent 5 minute speech, and LOTS of rapid hand gestures, like he is trying to spoof Hitler.

Obama is not a great speaker. Watch his debates, he was blown away by Hillary in 2008 and even Romney, to some extent, in 2012.

But he is charismatic. Same can be said about Trump really. So it's not about speeches.

In fact it just goes to show how the debates are nearly useless, indeed, everyone picks up favorites beforehand based on gut feeling.

He just extremely likeable, just like Obama was. He might not have Obama's speeching ability, but he actually did a good job against Cruz in debate. He will just need to control he hand gestures a bit better. But in the end, I don't think that will matter much.

I think at least one woman will have a very good shot in the race, middle aged women are after all the biggest voter group for the democrats.