Not so this year, when partisan discord over Mr. Trump and his policies has made politics a source of near-constant obsession. “There is intense interest in this 2020 race because of how voters in both major parties feel about President Trump,” said Patrick Healy, The Times’s politics editor. “This cycle has really started early — right after the midterms, we were moving straight on to the presidential. What came as a surprise, as they began compiling names, was the sheer number of candidates mulling a run. Ms. Park began organizing 30-plus possible candidates into a spreadsheet, and four politics reporters — Alexander Burns, Matt Flegenheimer, Lisa Lerer and Jonathan Martin — were each assigned a group of around eight names.

Source: New York Times January 22, 2019 09:56 UTC