Who can beat President Trump? For Democratic voters, that is the overriding question as they survey their field of 2020 presidential candidates. Yet the first round of the party’s debates left the answer even more muddled than before everyone arrived in Miami. …
The two nights and four hours of debating also highlighted the leftward movement of the Democratic Party and the degree to which many of the candidates are more focused on appealing to their most liberal constituent groups’ priorities, rather than addressing the mass of voters with whom they must connect in a general election. CONT.
Dan Balz, Washington Post