The story of why Democrats lost in 2016 has been dissected by journalists, activists and politicians since the moment Donald Trump won, with an array of explanations offered for what went wrong for the party.
But one indisputable fact is that had Democrats won in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, President Hillary Clinton would be gearing up for reelection right now. …
With less than a year left to go in the 2020 election, we wanted to look past the 2020 primary season to those three states — and specifically Democratic voters who stayed home, or shifted allegiances to Trump. What will it take for them to turn out this time? What do they want from the eventual Democratic nominee? And how are grass-roots organizations on the left and the party itself working to rebuild the crumbled Blue Wall? CONT.
Eugene Daniels & Beatrice Jin, Politico