Thread by @Monaheart1229

At a NYC gathering of major Dem donors last wk, there was consideration given to more 'establishment' candidates who might consider a last minute run for 2020. Among them: HRC, Sherrod Brown, Bloomberg & Michelle Obama. #TuesdayThoughts
nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/…

2-“Since the last debate, just anecdotally, I’ve had five or six people ask me: ‘Is there anybody else?’” said Leah Daughtry, a longtime Democrat who has run two of the party’s recent conventions. With doubts rising about former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s ability to

3-"finance a multistate primary campaign, persistent questions about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s viability in the general election and skepticism that Mayor Pete Buttigieg, of South Bend, Ind., can broaden his appeal beyond white voters, Democratic leaders are engaging in a

4-"familiar rite: fretting about who is in the race and longing for a white knight to enter the contest at the last minute. It is a regular, if not quite quadrennial, tradition for a party that can be fatalistic about its prospects and recalls similar Maalox moments Democrats

5-"endured in 1992, 2004 and in the last primary, when it was Mr. Biden who nearly entered the race in October. But the mood of alarm is even more intense because of the party’s hunger to defeat President Trump and — with just over three months to go before voting starts in Iowa

6-"their impatience with finding Mr. or Mrs. Right among the current crop of candidates. “There’s more anxiety than ever,” said Connie Schultz, a journalist who is married to Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, another Democrat who some in the party would like to see join the race.

7-"“We’re both getting the calls. I’ve been surprised by some who’ve called me.” “I can see it, I can feel it, I can hear it,” Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor, said of the unease within the party. He said he thinks Mr. Biden is best positioned to defeat Mr. Trump

8-"but called the former vice president’s fund-raising “a real concern.” ..Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Bloomberg have both told people privately in recent weeks that if they thought they could win, they would consider entering the primary — but that they were skeptical there would be

9-"an opening, according to Democrats who have spoken with them. Former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who associates say has wondered aloud about whether he should have run and has found it hard to watch Mr. Biden’s missteps, has also been urged to get in. But he still thinks

10-" the former vice president, who was once his longtime Senate colleague, is the party’s best nominee. Another Obama administration official who weighed a campaign at the start of the year, former Attorney General Eric Holder, is considering a last-minute entry but has

11-"conceded it may be too late, according to a Democrat familiar with his thinking..And Deval Patrick, the former Mass governor, who also weighed a campaign run before deciding not to, said he too has been nudged by friends to reconsider. “It’s nice to be rumored about,” ~NYT

12-While it's normal for Dem donors to consider an "October Candidate" it appears that it might really happen this time.
Now that HRC's name has been cleared, acc to NYT sources, she said that if Biden drops out or is 'seriously weakened' she'll consider joining the race.