that decision by the middle of the year before the presidential campaign really gets going. and speaking of that campaign, which in many ways is already under way, how many of those dozens of dome cattic names out there are actually going to step forward and run. will joe biden who s walked to the starting line before, will he walk up to it. his last chance at the presidency? will bernie sanders run again? how much of his coalition is still there with him? and how much was it just the anti-hillary vote in 2016? barack obama, will he try to play an anointing role when it comes to the next democratic nominee. the debates will start in the middle of the year. will someone break out on the stage there, someone surprising, someone we re not even talking about right now? will someone actually pull away so that this time next year there s a clear, overwhelming front runner? how will the man in the white house now react to all of this? is trump going to get a challenge in the republican
escalate? the showdowns between trump and pelosi. what else will the democrats do with their new house majority? what investigations will they launch? what will those investigations produce? how will they react if and when there s a report from robert mueller? big question here, will democrats move toward impeachment in the year 2019? they ll probably have to make that decision by the middle of the year before the presidential campaign really gets going. and speaking of that campaign, which in many ways is already under way, how many of those dozens of dome cattic names out there are actually going to step forward and run. will joe biden who s walked to the start ing line before, his last chance at the presidency. will bernie sanders run again? how much of his coalition is still there with him? and how much was it just the anti-hillary vote in 2016? barack obama, will he try to play an anointing role when it
amount of controversy to his statements because they re provocative and controversial. then they have to pivot to covering the other candidate. the a block and b block. in the a block if you re talking about donald trump and what he s saying is inherently controversial, you ll feel a need to attach controversy to whatever the democratic candidate is doing. it elevates and inflates the manufactured controversies as we learned the hard way on e-mails. we miles being right, because the media sort of default is to try to say if we re tough on donald trump on x, we need to find the equivalent y for the democrat and cover it with the same amount of excitement, which is why you got things about the hillary clinton foundation because you got the donald trump foundation. even though it doesn t make sense. by the way in 2020, what democrats are doing is they are making the country decide, do you want this country to be donald trump s america? that actually is what the election is goi
that actually is what the election is going to be about. so whoever the dome cattic nominee is going to have to try to make themselves a personality. it s a personality contest. that is what presidential races are. and b, litigate donald trump. donald trump is going to make that easy by talk ago lot and doing a lot of things, the media won t be able to not cover. then you re going to have to have a successful litigation. litigation on policy. that s the key thing. he s the guy that tried to take health care away. that s actually both as a strategy, but also for the country, we should be debating those things. you said this, brian, a nominee best situated to be able to ignore trump is one who commands a media ecosystem apart. there s two choices democratic primary voters can pick from in a primary that s about to begin. a no nonsense bland in most cases it happens to be white male candidates that the media is thinking about. in column b, more stridently progressive. the theo