Analysis: For Democrats, turning out the base is important. But mobilizing progressives alone isn’t enough to actually win in 2020.
The stakes are too high. Instead, Democrats should run the 2018 playbook that just delivered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the gavel and put Democrats in the governors’ mansions of purple and red states from coast to coast. To beat Donald Trump, of course Democrats must mobilize voters. But the party also must persuade voters beyond its base and build a broad coalition—and that base must include some of the folks who pulled the lever for him the first time around.
Instead, the crop of diverse and dynamic candidates who actually turned red seats blue were mainstream Democrats like Reps. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Colin Allred of Texas, Sharice Davids of Kansas and Xochitl Torres Small of New Mexico. These candidates ran on kitchen table issues like reducing the cost of health care, raising wages and cleaning up corruption in Washington.
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