In this upcoming election, a fierce competition between our current president, Donald Trump, and a variety of new democratic candidates is about to be under way. Election day 2020, who will win?

     With scandal after scandal in his current term, Donald Trump will not be elected. Especially considering a less-than stellar approval rating and more issues creating more and more controversy. As mass shootings have struck our country in the past few years, more people have waned away from more-gun gun control. “More gun-gun-control” is the belief that having more guns in an area, the less likely someone is to shoot others for fear of getting shot themselves by an armed bystander. However, Trump even changed his own platform after this clearly did not work, leading to dissapproval from his hardcore supporters, further lowering his standing in even his fans eyes. 

     Although Trump slipped into the position of president after robbing the people of their voice and winning over the electoral college; the popular vote was in support of Hillary Clinton. Clinton was a candidate that split the democratic party and even caused a lower democratic voter turnout due to white middle class blue voters turning to Trump’s rhetoric rather than trusting the beaurocrat Hillary Clinton. 

     A candidate that should not get the democratic primary vote is Joe Biden. A middle of the road bureaucratic lifelong politician with no backbone and simple patriotism is the lure of all middle class voters. One of the largest issues with his lack of platform is the acclaim he receives for destroying the heavily partisan politics in our country, when in fact he is just without a base. He has little in terms of tangible policy, and without policy he leaves little to be attacked by opposition. This does not seem to have crossed the mind of his supporters, however, as he leads in the democratic polling. Although Biden’s leading in polls, he should not receive the primary nomination, for we might experience the same issue we had with Clinton. As the large base of extreme voters in the democratic party saw the nomination go towards Clinton, they felt their voices went unheard in their own party. We must avoid this, and instead pull in the middle of the road for their mutability is easy to win over. Finally Biden’s inappropriate touching allegations, we do not need to elect another creep into the most powerful position in the U.S.

     I believe that candidate to be Bernie Sanders, for his large support in rural communities and urban centers alike. He has a platform that appeals to most of the more extreme democratic voters, and doesn’t leave behind the more conservative, middle of the road democratic ones. A large slogan within the progressive community is “anything except trump”. If America can get a candidate that gets the most liberal voters and forces the mid range voters to choose between themselves and Trump, Trump will lose. 

    This upcoming election is crucial to win middle america back from Trump, and the only way to do that is to meet their needs. Why did a “self-made man” and a rough-speaking anti establishment candidate win? Because people are tired of the less than stellar status quo. America is in love with grandeur, and they all want it for themselves. Trump spoke to those narcissistic wants, to “make america great again”. To give the people a new golden age of American Prosperity. We must face these concepts head on and give these voters a new voice through a democratic candidate. The candidate to do that is Bernie Sanders.