Progressives are urging 2020 Democratic candidates to consider running for Senate — instead of president

With the entrance Tuesday of Montana Democratic Governor Steve Bullock in the 2020 presidential race, Democratic voters are urging the nearly two dozen White House hopefuls to reconsider their campaigns and set their sights on a Senate seat instead of the Oval Office.

Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted his strategy was to wait for all the other Democrats to enter the race before declaring his candidacy. That was nearly three weeks ago, and two more candidates have since announced their candidacy.

Some Americans, presumably Democrats, are taking to Twitter to urge some of the 23-candidate strong field to reconsider, and run for the Senate instead. Others are made a plea asking party favorites, like Stacey Abrams, to run for Senate.

It's not an unreasonable request for candidates who want to serve the public.

The 2020 elections will include 34 U.S. Senate seats. 22 of them are currently held by Republicans, and many Republicans are rather unpopular, especially those who have tied their fates to President Donald Trump.

And given that the Senate is currently under the control of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, many on the left desperately want to grab control of the chamber. McConnell has greatly enabled President Trump, and is packing the federal courts with his extremist nominees, and at a rate not seen in modern history. He's also said many bills from the Democratically-controlled House will be DOA, bragging he will be the "Grim Reaper."

Here's the current list of 23 top tier Democrats running for President. In bold are seven current sitting U.S. Senators:

1. Steve Bullock
2. Michael Bennet
3. Joe Biden
4. Cory Booker
5. Pete Buttigieg
6. Julian Castro
7. John Delaney
8. Tulsi Gabbard
9. Kirsten Gillibrand
10. Mike Gravel
11. Kamala Harris
12. John Hickenlooper
13. Jay Inslee
14. Amy Klobuchar
15. Wayne Messam
16. Seth Moulton
17. Beto O’Rourke
18. Tim Ryan
19. Bernie Sanders
20. Eric Swalwell
21. Elizabeth Warren
22. Marianne Williamson
23. Andrew Yang

Daniel Nichanian offers this example:

And here's a look at some others urging Democrats to withdraw from the presidential race and run for Senate: