Why Democrats can’t break out of the ‘electability’ box
Who can beat President Donald Trump?
It’s a question endlessly asked by news outlets and analyzed by pundits. Democratic voters themselves, by a wide margin, say they would choose the candidate with the best shot at beating the president over the candidate who most mirrors their policy preferences.
As the first Democratic debates of the 2020 campaign get underway tonight and tomorrow, it’s likely each of the 20 candidates onstage will make a case for why they are the most “electable.”
Yet this focus on electability is problematic, political observers say, especially this far out in
