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A DIVIDED DEMOCRATIC BASE IS LURING CANDIDATES TO THE LEFT

WINNING A PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY isn’t magic: you figure out what voters want and then give it to them. But that’s no simple task for the Democrats seeking the White House in 2020. This isn’t the same party Bill Clinton or Barack Obama led. It’s not even the same one that nominated Hillary Clinton less than three years ago.

The party’s base is more diverse and more female than ever before, with newly assertive feminist and racial-justice

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