“Are you a contender in 2020 for president?” “I am a contender for the 2018 midterms where I’m going to be fighting for every Democratic candidate — ” “That’s a nonanswer answer.” “I’m running for my re-election for Senate in 2018.” “My calculation’s never been, ‘Who’s running? Can I win?’” “The long and the short of it, Chris, is I don’t know what I’m going to be doing.” It’s still unclear who will contend for the Democratic nomination in 2020. “You’re probably not going to answer me, but I’m going to ask you anyway.” “You’re right.” “Will you run for president?” “Ok, let me tell you that — ” But names have been floated and hints have been dropped. And how hard they go after Donald Trump will likely be a big focus for voters. Here’s how some of these possible contenders are taking on the president. “The problem we have is we have a president who is not serious about policy, a president who lies every single day, a president who told us that he couldn’t do anything about ripping children from the arms of their mothers. It had to be in Congress. And then two days later, he passed an executive order.“ “This enforcement surge is a barely disguised purge.” “The fact that these families are being separated at the border. The fact that children are being torn out of the arms of their mothers is on Donald Trump’s head and nobody else.” “Among the many problems plaguing this administration’s foreign policy: ideological incoherence, inconsistent and confusing messaging, erratic decision-making, unwillingness or inability to solve problems caused by understaffing.” “You can’t take a bunch of disconnected dots, draw a line and say, ‘Oh, that must have been the strategy, because I can now draw a line through them.’” “Donald Trump’s willingness to speak in a manner about nuclear war, that is, to me, terrifying, frankly, about the consequences of someone who decides to conduct foreign policy that way.” “What you have is a president who promised the American people to provide health to ‘everybody.’ And then proceeded to support legislation to throw 32 million people off of health insurance.” “Here is a guy that promised consistently that he was, ‘Hey, only I can fix this. that I’m taking — I’m the guy that I’m going to make health care for everybody. I’m going to make it affordable. Oh, it’s going to be — ’ I think the word he used was ‘terrific.’ Well, he’s completely abdicated that responsibility, that — completely broken that promise.” “I’ve been here for eight presidents. This is the first president to make a full-throated, unvarnished attack on the entirety of the F.B.I. What do you think they’re thinking in Moscow? This is doing everything that Putin ever wanted.” “This is more important than politics. This is more important than whether or not you agree with him on 100 different things. What matters is that no one in this country, no one, not even the president of the United States, is above the law.” “That’s right.”