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This is a list of major Democratic Party candidates for president.The Democratic Party has existed since the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, and the Democrats have nominated a candidate for president in every presidential election since the party's first convention in 1832.
Owen Jones, English journalist and political commentator [97] Helen Keller, American political activist [98] Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader [99] [100] [101] Naomi Klein, Canadian author and social activist [102] Leszek KoĊakowski, Polish philosopher and communist dissident [103] [104] [105]
Bernie Sanders, who remained an independent in the Senate throughout the primaries (despite running for president as a Democrat), is a self-described democratic socialist, and represented the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which includes politicians such as Ed Markey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Elizabeth ...
[341] [342] The New Democrat Network supports socially liberal and fiscally moderate Democratic politicians and is associated with the congressional New Democrat Coalition in the House. [343] Annie Kuster is the chair of the coalition, [ 341 ] and former senator and President Barack Obama was self-described as a New Democrat. [ 344 ]
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a political nonprofit organization, not a political party. Therefore, DSA members and endorsees usually run as members of the Democratic Party, Green Party, Working Families Party, or as independents. [citation needed] In the 2017 elections, DSA members were elected to fifteen state and local ...
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2001 – Michael Bloomberg, was a Democrat before running for mayor of New York City, New York as a Republican. He later became an independent before rejoining the Democratic Party in 2018 and being a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. [427] 2002 – Sheila Kiscaden, Minnesota state representative elected as a Republican.
After being the dominant party in U.S. politics from 1801 to 1829, the Democratic-Republicans split into two factions by 1828: the federalist National Republicans (who became the Whigs), and the Democrats. The Democrats and Whigs were evenly balanced in the 1830s and 1840s.