Former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown said that no Democratic candidate in the 2020 race is capable of beating President Trump right now.
Brown’s political analysis appeared in his San Francisco Chronicle column on Saturday in a piece titled “Bad news for Democrats — none of these candidates can beat Trump.” Brown admitted that not even his ex-girlfriend Sen. Kamala Harris of California could beat Trump in a race today.
“Harris got all the attention for playing prosecutor in chief, but her case against former Vice President Joe Biden boiled down in some ways to a ringing call for forced school busing. It won’t be too hard for Trump to knock that one out of the park in 2020,” Brown wrote.
“Trump must have enjoyed every moment and every answer[ in the Democratic debates], because he now knows he’s looking at a bunch of potential rivals who are still not ready for prime time,” Brown concluded.
Brown dated Harris in the 1990s as the future senator was getting her start in politics. Brown, then Democratic speaker of the California State Assembly, appointed Harris to her first significant political office on the California Medical Assistance Commission in 1994. Harris missed about a fifth of the medical board’s meetings, which took place twice a month. She left the board in 1998.
“Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker,” Brown wrote in a column in January.
