The Democrats Who Could Topple Trump

[DonViejo]

2020 FORESIGHT

The Democrats Who Could Topple Trump

It’s not too early to think about all this, or for party members to hope that the darkest hour comes right before the dawn.

MICHAEL TOMASKY

04.18.17 1:00 AM ET

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You’ll have noticed, perhaps, what my conversation above assumes—and where it ends. It assumes that a Democrat is elected president in 2020, and it stops shy of actually talking about that. Partly because it’s too early. And partly because the bench isn’t what you’d call imposing. But let’s talk about it. Here’s my list, which is in no particular order except for number one.

1. Sherrod Brown. The Ohio senator has a tough reelection race in 2018, against the same person he beat in 2012, but this time in a nonpresidential year (and after Trump trounced Hillary in the state). If he survives that, it seems to me he jumps to the top of the list.

When electorates grow weary of Candidate A, they sometimes want Candidate B to be that person’s opposite. No one is a more natural opposite to Trump than Brown. Trump’s a fake populist; Brown’s the real thing (without the racial demagoguery, which will admittedly be a minus for some voters). He just has to stand there, in his Ohio-made inexpensive suits, and he’s the guy who shows what a phony Trump is. He can probably carry Ohio and win back enough of the kinds of voters in Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes states that the Democrats need to win.

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2. Elizabeth Warren. I have a lot of respect for Warren. A lot. But Massachusetts liberal…the Democrats have gone down that road twice, and lost both times. And of course she’s a woman to boot. How much of those lost Clinton votes in the Great Lakes (and elsewhere—say, among Latino men) were lost because she was Hillary, and how many were lost simply because she was a woman? We’ll never know. I say this with sadness, but it seems more likely to me that the first woman president of this country will be a conservative Republican who can’t be slimed by the right-wing propaganda mill as soft on terrorists and criminals and border-jumpers.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/18/the-democrats-who-could-topple-trump.html

[vi5]

1. No issues with any of the names discussed in that article.

I'm not a Booker fan, but that's one of those minor "devil is in the details" issues as well as being overly familiar with him being from NJ. But in no way would I have to hold my nose to vote for him.

Honestly the only name I hear bandied about, and who would actually have a chance, that it would pain me to vote for would be Cuomo, but he wasn't mentioned in that article.

[murielm99]

2. Look again.

Cuomo is in the article.

The see only one name that belies the article. One of them is not like the others. He is not a Democrat.

[vi5]

3. He poses as one really well.....

He knows the right surface things to say in order to get people thinking he is. But when one digs down deeper (like with his recent "free college move) it becomes clear it's little more than surface.

[OldSchoolLiberal]

4. What's wrong with Cuomo?

What's wrong with Cuomo?

[murielm99]

5. Nothing.

I like him. He is mentioned in the article.