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The Democrats’ Visceral Fear of Losing to Donald Trump
quote:
"These worries—about what Republicans would say, about what Donald Trump would say—were a common theme throughout the night. Over and over, Democrats laid bare their worries about losing. Former Representative John Delaney of Maryland invoked the massive losses of George McGovern, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota griped that “we are more worried about winning an argument than winning an election.” At one point, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, looked around the stage and said, “We need the kind of vision that’s going to win.”
The trauma is especially intense here, in the state that gave Trump his smallest margin of victory in 2016 and helped deliver him the election. The president took the state with fewer votes than George W. Bush received when he lostMichigan in 2004, but it was enough to put a giant crack in the Democrats’ blue wall. Three years ago, the Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingell was among those who warned Hillary Clinton’s campaign that the state was vulnerable, and she later wrote that Democrats called her “nuts” for predicting her state could go red. Ahead of last night’s debate, her colleague Elissa Slotkin, who in 2018 flipped a Republican district north of Detroit, told a local television reporter that she worries national Democrats don’t understand a key dynamic in 2020: Her party won the House because candidates like her, in swing districts, “had a broad-based economic agenda, and they weren’t chasing each other left.”"
The Democrats’ Visceral Fear of Losing to Donald Trump
quote:
"These worries—about what Republicans would say, about what Donald Trump would say—were a common theme throughout the night. Over and over, Democrats laid bare their worries about losing. Former Representative John Delaney of Maryland invoked the massive losses of George McGovern, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota griped that “we are more worried about winning an argument than winning an election.” At one point, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, looked around the stage and said, “We need the kind of vision that’s going to win.”
The trauma is especially intense here, in the state that gave Trump his smallest margin of victory in 2016 and helped deliver him the election. The president took the state with fewer votes than George W. Bush received when he lostMichigan in 2004, but it was enough to put a giant crack in the Democrats’ blue wall. Three years ago, the Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingell was among those who warned Hillary Clinton’s campaign that the state was vulnerable, and she later wrote that Democrats called her “nuts” for predicting her state could go red. Ahead of last night’s debate, her colleague Elissa Slotkin, who in 2018 flipped a Republican district north of Detroit, told a local television reporter that she worries national Democrats don’t understand a key dynamic in 2020: Her party won the House because candidates like her, in swing districts, “had a broad-based economic agenda, and they weren’t chasing each other left.”"
