A diversity paradox looms over the Democrats’ hopes of recapturing the White House in 2020.
The field of Democratic presidential candidates includes the most racial minorities ever, and more minorities will likely vote next year in the party’s primaries than ever before. Yet four white contenders consistently lead in state and national polls, partly because of the outsized influence of the two virtually all-white states that lead off the election calendar, Iowa and New Hampshire. …
The same tensions are shaping the party’s calculations about next November. With the country’s minority population steadily growing, analysts in both parties expect that nonwhites will constitute their largest share of voters ever in the 2020 general election. Yet the overwhelming focus of most Democratic strategists is finding a way to reconnect three fallen bricks to the Democrats’ “blue wall” across the Rust Belt: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN