VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate John Hickenlooper On What Differentiates Him From Democratic Field

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) is one of more than 20 Democrats running for president in 2020, and is hoping to differentiate himself from the crowded field in one major way: his past experience as a small-business entrepreneur and moderate Democratic policies.

The 67-year-old candidate explained to uPolitics exclusively how he came to create in the 1980s and 1990s what became the largest brewpub in the United States, the Wynkoop, after roughly two years of being unemployed. This ultimately helped him launch his first major job in politics, his eight-year stint as mayor of Denver that began in 2003 after he won the election with two-thirds of the vote.