The opening weeks of the Democrats’ 2020 nomination campaign reflect the party’s continuing leftward movement. Presidential candidates have sketched out an agenda of big social welfare ambitions and a bigger federal government. What the party needs is a rigorous debate about those programs and the details behind them. …
The 2018 elections provide some answer to where the party’s voters stand, and that is in favor of candidates who can win. In urban districts like Ocasio-Cortez’s, the party’s progressive wing triumphed. In other, more competitive districts, more mainstream Democrats were prized by primary voters. Electability as much or more than positions on issues helped determine who the Democrats would nominate for competitive Republican-held seats.
Will that be the case when it comes to picking a nominee to take on Trump? CONT.
Dan Balz, Washington Post