Analysis: A key part of the Democratic base rejects the argument for Biden
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The crowd engaged in some good-natured booing, and Warren rolled up the sleeves on her green jacket. “We can’t get stuck in 2016, because that’s exactly how we’ll end up repeating it,” said Bianca Avery, a 37-year-old teacher from Dallas who had backed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary. “We get too caught up on electability; we get caught up on the ‘normal’ candidate, the white, cisgender male that’s been around. Maybe they’ll roll out their platforms and impress us, but we can’t get caught up in those identity politics.
Biden has, this year, addressed criticisms of past actions that had angered black women. He reintroduced himself as a well-meaning white man who made mistakes but understands why they upset people. Biden has bemoaned that he did not better handle sexual harassment accusations against Clarence Thomas when he was nominated for the Supreme Court, and he has partially apologized for provisions of the 1994 crime bill.
While Biden was prepping for that, most of his top-tier rivals were talking at the She the People forum. Most of the candidates were ready with statistics about just how much worse women of color had done in the modern economy, from a larger wage gap with white men to an infant mortality rate triple that of white women.
The candidates who could be the first female president got a warmer reception. Sen. Kamala Harris , who has been loudly criticized on the left for her prosecutorial record in San Francisco, assured the crowd that she understood the need for change — and why change would help black women. The comprehensive rundown of heresies that Biden may have to deal with; the question is whether any Democrat will dare point them out, or whether the wet work will be left to Twitter.Not since Henry Clay has there been a potential party nominee whose electoral career began so long before he sought the presidential nomination. And rarely in American history have public opinions on race and gender changed as quickly as they have from 1972 to now.
“In 2018, Texas Democrats proved that they can win in competitive districts,” DCCC Chair Rep. Cheri Bustos said in a statement this month. Fletcher won the general election by five points; in Washington, Republicans largely blamed the floundering campaign of John Culberson, an incumbent who had never had to run a close race. But in that race, Culberson had portrayed Fletcher as a secret leftist,of supporting Medicare-for-all because she referred to"universal health care" in a debate.
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