John Delaney: The 2020 long-shot candidate who’s gaining ground in Iowa - a podcast by POLITICO

For Congressman John Delaney, the 2020 campaign is already underway. The
money is there. So is the commitment. And people in are starting to pay
attention.

The little-known Maryland congressman thinks that’s part of what will
transform a presidential run that pretty much no one takes seriously
into the next Jimmy Carter-style, out-of-nowhere explosion onto the
presidential debate stage. Delaney, who made his fortune founding two
commercial lending companies, has already spent $1 million out of his
own pocket, using it for TV ads in Des Moines and a campaign office in
Iowa. Since last summer, he’s taken 11 trips to the caucus state, plus
eight to New Hampshire. He’s even written a new campaign book.

 

What does he have to show for it? While he’s been all but ignored in the
national media, Delaney has an internal poll from Iowa that ranks him
fifth in terms of name ID among potential Democratic candidates.
Fifty-two percent of those likely 2020 Democratic caucus-goers polled
know who John Delaney is, which puts him behind only Joe Biden, Bernie
Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker—and ahead of buzzed-about
figures like Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Terry McAuliffe.

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