Every presidential candidate in the history of the United States has a strong personality (even if it’s a complete lack of personality, ahem, Al Gore). Halloween candy options are no different. Both of these seemingly unrelated things provoke heated debate and force people to take sides, threatening to divide our country. But there is a way to bridge the gap. If each of the remaining 19 Democratic candidates were a Halloween candy, maybe we’d finally agree on who the best candidate is. Or maybe we’d just end up in a food fight. Either way, indulge us (and your sweet tooth) with these perfect pairings.
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Democratic Candidates Halloween Candy
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Joe Biden – Clark Bar
What’s that? You’ve never head of these old-timey chocolate peanut butter crunch bars? That’s because they’re as archaic as Biden, dating back to 1917.
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Elizabeth Warren – Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are everyone’s favorite Halloween candy, and Warren is the most appealing candidate in the big Dem race. Yes, please, to both.
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Cory Booker – Smarties
This vegan candidate can’t indulge in many traditional Halloween candies, but we’ll give him Smarties, because he obviously is one. Sadly, like the candy, that doesn’t make him all that desirable a candidate among the populous.
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Amy Klobuchar – Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll
This down-home candidate promotes all things Midwestern, so why should Halloween candy be any different? These salty-sweet treats are made in her home state of Minnesota.
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Bernie Sanders – Mr. Goodbar
Introduced in 1925, this candy bar is an oldie but a goodie. While Sanders' heart is in the right place with his Medicare for all and tuition-free college dreams, he’s totally nuts if he thinks taxpayers are going to foot the bill.
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Kamala Harris – PayDay
The senator from California has equal pay as her signature policy, so pairing her with a peanut caramel PayDay is a no-brainer.
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Beto O’Rourke – Chick-o-Stick
You can't get more Texan than this iconic crunchy peanut candy and the passionate El Paso native.
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Tulsi Gabbard – Warheads
The military combat veteran running on war policy changes could totally chow down on these candies, which happen to be vegetarian, just like her.
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Julián Castro – Cucharita Rica
Thanks to his Mexican heritage, Castro encapsulates this spicy tamarind candy – oddly, often sold on a plastic spoon south of the border.
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Andrew Yang – Airheads
Given this candidate’s outrageous universal income proposal, we’re naming him an Airhead and calling it a day.
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Pete Buttigieg – Kit Kat White Chocolate
With little support from black voters and a history of un-woke comments, he’s a little too white and light on substance for anything other than a Kit Kat in white chocolate flavor. Give us a break, indeed.
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Tom Steyer – 100 Grand
While 100 Grand vastly underestimates Steyer’s net worth (estimated to be $1.6 billion), putting a figure on this wealthy money manager’s candy bar just feels right.
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John Delaney – Peanut M&Ms
This health nut would appreciate the protein packed in these poppable chocolate-coated candies. There's also an eerie physical resemblance here...or is it just us?
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Marianne Williamson – Candy Corn
With her campaign platform based entirely on love, we have to give this woo-hoo self-help author the most dreaded candy of Halloween because she’s just too corny. There is such a thing as excessive sweetness and now we have a stomachache.
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Joe Sestak – Lifesavers
As a retired Navy admiral, we think this candidate would appreciate a big stock of Lifesavers.
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Steve Bullock – Sour Patch Kids
This public education proponent would do anything to put kids front and center, even if it sours childless voters.
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Michael Bennet – Crunch Bar
This guy is all over the place, policy-wise. He’s for citizenship for dreamers but wants additional funding for the wall. He opposes Medicare for all but wants to expand the American Care Act. He wants to regulate oil and gas drilling but not end it. When you try to please too many people, you end up as airy and unsubstantial as a Crunch bar.
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Tim Ryan – Twix
Here’s another ho-hum candidate who doesn’t bring much to table that isn’t already there. This unsatisfying treat is half wafer thin, half stuck-to-your-teeth uncomfortable.
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Wayne Messam – Whatchamacallit
Because you’ve never heard of him and you probably never will.
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