defeating trump in november of 2020? if your tulsi gabbard and still in your 30s, can you make a name for yourself in the democratic primary when this is an old headline. hq in damascus? she had a meeting with assad, quite controversial. also said in 2000, as democrats, we should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists. pro-assad with some, at least, questionable comments on gay rights. not a great place to start in a democratic primary. with this this reminds me of 2016 on the republican side. marco rubio, jeb bush, scott walker and all the republicans saying this is the best, biggest field we ve ever had. and they ended up with donald trump. donald trump was not part of that discussion for the establishment republicans. it will be interesting what dynam ike if that similar dynamic plays out in the democratic party and also how
they handle trump. they ll have plenty of opportunities to handle trump. i don t know if kamala harris book tour would be front page but it s not going to be front page as long as trump is shouting about this shutdown and making and threatening national emergencies. how are these democrats going to break through trump in something that his republican opponents were never able to do. one of the big questions, is it a completely new field? does bernie sand ers run again? he s having to apologize to women who say they were mistreated, abused in some cases in his last campaign. what they experienced was absolutely unacceptable and certainly not what a progressive campaign or any campaign should be about. to the women in our campaign who were harassed or mistreated, i apologize. our standards, our procedures,
debate of who can beat trump will take a more definitive form and it won t be so much, we just want someone who can beat trump. a real debate about what that looks like. it s a great point because elizabeth warren, the most active out of the gate. in iowa last weekend. she s in new hampshire. a picture of her husband and dog who made the trip up to new hampshire. she was specifically asked, you didn t mention trump in your speech. she s had the pocahontas back and forth and dna back and forth with the president. does she need to pull back from that and not be in a constant war? this was part of her getting back to why she became a national star in the democratic party in the first place which had nothing to do with trump. it predated trump. got back to her views on economic policy, her brand of populism. so i think she was trying to recapture some of that. i dong th think that some of th democrats are going to try to define themselves.
example so far of someone trying to subvert trump. when it came to tariffs, never said not to do it. let s wait until after tax reform. you sort of delay trump. what happened inside the meeting last week, trump said we ll lift the shutdown if, nancy, will you give us money for the wall after that? what did trump do? bye-bye. this is a president who hasn t been told no by congress and that s the real sea change here. he s staring down a congress with a leader in the house like nancy pelosi who sees no incentive to compromise with him. she feels like she has political momentum on her side given the results of the midterm elections. and so how the president tries to operate in this new di tammic will determine whether he can be successful over the next two years. he hasn t figured it out in termes of the shutdown. even if the national emergency is declared. something he said he d do if no deal comes about, it s still not
she s very much talking about policy. very much talking about the rigged economy and corporations, and she would be a voice in terms of economic populism. but all of the democrats i talk to are glad the field is this huge. imagine if there are 30 people running, my goodness, you ll be touching every aspect of the party. every sort of ideology, and you are going to be setting up organizations in all of these states that eventually are going to be important in the general. what democrats want is a candidate who can beat trump. ultimately, that s more than their policy on health case, their policy on the economy. they want someone that can get up on stage and take on trump. they don t know if they want somebody who is going to go toe-to-toe and be just as aggressive as trump is. they don t know if it should be somebody who can rise above that. an experienced politician or a new face right now. that s what s going to make this so interesting. but i do find in talking to democratic voters