If there's a recession, any of them would at least have a chance.
Even absent a recession, I think Buttigieg or Sanders would have pretty high probabilities of winning. Buttigieg is really good at coming across as stable, which a ton of people have been missing with Trump, but he also comes across as honest, and he doesn't have much baggage. Sanders has a lot of credibility and passion, and he eats into a big chunk of Trump's base, though his policies may be too far left for the wider electorate.
No matter what you want to accomplish, overconfidence is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. That's how Hillary Clinton lost. Paths exist for anyone in the race to win against Trump, or for Trump to win against anyone, even if some paths are pretty unlikely.
My GF is closely blood related to Buttigeg and I have met a lot of his immediate family from where he is originally from but he is way too far left for us..
It's a shame but we aren't about to support him because we know him..
Trump is too far left for me too but is easily the lesser of evils so Trump 2020 for sure..
Buttigeg is a queer and flaunts it to his advantage with the libtards posting trash about transexual rights etc.. Gross..
Sanders is a flippin commie - enough said..
Ateast Trump got us some decent scotus judges and hopefully gets another one soon from RBG retiring or whatever..
I want someone stronger on the 2nd amendment than Trump though..
Trump is a centrist really but America is pretty centrist and I think Trump has done decent to keep our centrist country strong, but I am not centrist, i'm more anncap, but the USA isn't just going to go straight libertarian/anncap and we need to keep up our huge military or be destroyed at the first sign of weakness so I have to compromise my views for what's best for the current America..
We can never be small government libertarian isolationist because they would come attack us as soon as we let our guard down guaranteed..
IMO what we need is to keep the huge military because it is our only option to stay alive now, but they can leave us the F alone with their laws and cut the heck out of all welfare programs..
I like the dog eat dog darwinism the strong survive philosophy but good luck getting people to agree to let poor people starve to death and die on the streets now that we have fed baithed and housed them like babies for so long..
We are just too far gone already in that aspect to completely reverse it immediately..