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The former US Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean believes the party’s chances of winning back the White House in 2020 rest on appealing to young Americans and a bottom-up grassroots campaign.
The one-time Vermont governor, whose 2004 presidential bid revolutionised campaigning by using the internet to drive mass participation, sees a return to winning ways through the rash of new youthful political activist groups.
“If you want young people to vote, you got to give them somebody to be excited about and I think that’s going to be somebody who looks like them,” Dean said on a visit to Dublin for a conference last week.
The medical doctor-turned-politician is hoping for a Democratic presidential candidate “under 50, 55 at a pinch,” he says. He has a close eye on four possible runners: Eric Garcetti (47), the mayor of Los Angeles; New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand (51); California senator Kamala Harris (53) and Connecticut senator Chris Murphy (44).
Now an outspoken media pundit who regularly lambasts Donald Trump, Dean paints the US president as a racist, a provocateur and a narcissist obsessed with his public profile.
“The state of American politics is pretty disastrous,” he told The Irish Times, speaking the morning after the US government shut down for the second time under Trump.
Howard Dean eyes youthful grassroots for Democratic Party resurgence
They still don't have a plan.
The one-time Vermont governor, whose 2004 presidential bid revolutionised campaigning by using the internet to drive mass participation, sees a return to winning ways through the rash of new youthful political activist groups.
“If you want young people to vote, you got to give them somebody to be excited about and I think that’s going to be somebody who looks like them,” Dean said on a visit to Dublin for a conference last week.
The medical doctor-turned-politician is hoping for a Democratic presidential candidate “under 50, 55 at a pinch,” he says. He has a close eye on four possible runners: Eric Garcetti (47), the mayor of Los Angeles; New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand (51); California senator Kamala Harris (53) and Connecticut senator Chris Murphy (44).
Now an outspoken media pundit who regularly lambasts Donald Trump, Dean paints the US president as a racist, a provocateur and a narcissist obsessed with his public profile.
“The state of American politics is pretty disastrous,” he told The Irish Times, speaking the morning after the US government shut down for the second time under Trump.
Howard Dean eyes youthful grassroots for Democratic Party resurgence
They still don't have a plan.
