Opinion: 20-plus questions to cut to the 2020 chase
Attendees listen to 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, not pictured, during a meet-and-greet at a home in Muscatine, Iowa, on Thursday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 15 at 12:00 PM As the field of Democratic presidential contenders fills out, we’re hearing reporters ask them about the Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all, Supreme Court packing and other topics.
However, if we have learned anything from President Trump, it is that character, intellectual curiosity, humility, steadiness, self-awareness, courage and decency do matter.That’s a start. I sincerely hope some or all of these questions get asked in debates, town halls and interviews. We elected someone in 2016 entirely unfit for the office of the presidency, and we’ve learned how much damage an unfit person can do to our democratic norms and institutions.
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