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) and on his ongoing negotiations with North Korea. Even if they're not fruitful, they clash with the image that Clinton painted of Trump in 2016, of a reckless leader who could precipitate a war.a major foreign policy address, arguing that “the position of 'leader of the free world' [remained] open” while George W. Bush was president. Several candidates this time, such as Sanders, had addressed foreign policy topics before running; only two, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Rep.
But crises keep emerging, and Democrats are not grappling with them as aggressively as they had in the past. Gabbard, who endorsed Sanders in 2016, hasof her campaign to attacking “neocons and neolibs” who favor “regime change wars.” She has not gotten much traction in the primary, as much of the left has gotten behind Sanders.
“Donald Trump will claim falsely that he was against Iraq and is against endless wars,” Khanna said. “To prevail, our nominee needs to have the credibility to debunk Trump’s false claims and convince Americans that they have a better track record to get us out of bad wars. This will be one of the most important questions of electability in the 2020 primary.”READING LISTby Toluse Olorunnipa
The saga of a 2018 Democratic star in Kansas — defeating a Bernie Sanders-backed candidate from the center, then being lumped in by Republicans as yet another left-winger — says plenty about the stalled progress toward the left's health-care dream.by Astead W. Herndon and Lisa Lerer Biden's comments, part of his patriotic boilerplate meant to show faith in U.S. strength, were quickly bent into evidence that he didn't see China as a threat. Biden's successor, Mike Pence, used a CNBC interview to suggest that Biden was ignorant about Chinese strategies.
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