Can Democrats Beat Trump In 2020 By Just Ignoring Him?

Democratic candidates who have already announced for 2020 have been following a similar pattern – they aren’t talking about Donald Trump. This mirrors the main strategy that Democrats used to win back the House in 2018, and it is a complete reversal from what they did in the 2016 election. This is the best strategy they can use right now – ignore Trump, talk policy – and Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains why this could be so successful.

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Something very interesting appears to be happening with the Democratic Party as we get more and more people announcing that they are going to run for president under the Democratic Party ticket in 2020. What's happening is in none of them and their announcements, speeches are talking about Donald Trump. And according to new analysis by the daily beast, uh, the reason Democrats, one of the reasons Democrats were so successful in the 2018 midterms is because they didn't make the election about Trump. Now, this is obviously a stark contrast to what the Democratic Party did in the 2016 election when they made everything about Donald Trump vote for hillary because she's not Donald Trump. Vote for Hillary because Donald Trump says horrible, hurtful, mean, Gross, disgusting. Things that actually didn't resonate with the American public. I mean, analyses have shown that Hillary Clinton only talked about issues 25 percent of the time. The rest of it was, I'm not Trump.

Trump's a jerk. Look at the jerk. Look at how bad he is. I'm not like that. American public didn't buy it. And finally, after years of getting their butts kicked in elections, it appears that Democrats understand that you can't run a campaign, at least not a successful one, by saying that you're just better than your opponent. One of the big reasons Democrats won so much in the house, not the Senate, obviously in 2018, it's because they ran on issues, which is what the American public wants. They want Medicare for all. They want debt free college. They want expansion of social security. They want a green new deal. Every one of those is supported by a majority of every party. And they ran on those issues and they won. And the Democrats who have so far announced that they are running in 2020, they're talking about the same things.

They're talking about those policies and others that are desperately needed in this country. They're not sitting there saying, I'm running for president because I don't like Donald Trump. Which is exactly actually what Michael Avenatti said Democrats had to do. Mike Avenatti said the Democrats. So this was a couple months ago. He said it on twitter. Uh, they got to run against Trump. They need a fighter. Somebody who's going to get down there and get her, I'm going to beat you up. Trump, I'm better than you. And they're doing the opposite and they're actually doing better. You know, Michael Avenatti might be a decent attorney, but when it comes to being a politician, I am really glad he's decided to sit out the 2020 race and hopefully he'll sit out every political race for the future because this guy cannot be a serious politician if he thinks that he can run on being the anti Trump democratic party tried that didn't work out so well.