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    Old, young, liberal, centrist: Democrats will have no end of choices for president in 2020

    by Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Jan 13, 2019 6 minutes

    WASHINGTON - There are fresh faces and old hands. Billionaires and at least one person still paying off student loans. A skateboarder, a brewery founder and a coffee magnate are all taking a look.

    Dozens of Democrats are thinking about running for president in 2020.

    The result could be a divisive, messy set of primaries, but many Democrats are exhilarated by the prospect of a wide range of choices, mirroring the congressional races in 2018.

    "If there's one thing we learned over the last two years, it's that primaries are a good thing," said Amanda Litman, founder of Run for Something, a group established after President Trump's election in 2016 to recruit and train young progressives to run for office. "They make our party stronger."

    In sorting through their choices between young and old, liberal and more centrist, white men and women and people of color, Democrats will be deciding not only who they want as a nominee, but what kind of

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