Michael Avenatti on who Democrats should run in 2020: 'It better be a white male'

Michael Avenatti.
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Michael Avenatti has some very specific ideas about who Democrats should run in 2020. It should be him, he suggested, or someone else who looks quite a bit like him.

The white, male lawyer for Stormy Daniels has recently gained unusual prominence in the Democratic Party — a party that's currently running record numbers of women and people of color for office. But when it comes to who the party should nominate for 2020's presidential election, "I think it better be a white male," Avenatti told Time in an interview published Thursday.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.