… The still-fluid race for the Democratic nomination has split into two distinct groups: the candidates who have succeeded in crafting a distinct message and those who haven’t.
For months, the three top-polling Democratic candidates have distinguished themselves with crystal-clear, if varied, arguments. Former vice president Joe Biden is running to “restore the soul” of the country to the pre-Donald Trump era. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) promises a Democratic-socialist revolution that puts government in charge of huge sectors of the economy. And Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is asking the country to “dream big” for structural changes to take away the power of economic and political elites.
The others in the race have found it more difficult to offer the same kind of coherence between their policy and campaign approaches, and are still developing their pitch and the organization to back it up months after their announcements. CONT.
Holly Bailey & Michael Scherer, Washington Post