Bottom line: This is an election both sides are fully capable of losing, writes columnist DoyleMcManus.
From left, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris respond to a moderator's question at Thursday's Democratic presidential debate in Miami. President Trump is delivering the same angry, divisive message he used to mobilize his mostly white, mostly conservative voters four years ago. At his campaign’s, he told his followers in Orlando, Fla.
The fact that he has reopened the playbook this year is dispiriting but shouldn’t come as a surprise. Normally, a first-term president with a growing economy should be able to coast into a second term. That’s how Ronald Reagan won in 1984, Bill Clinton in 1996 and Obama in 2012. So the Democratic primary electorate is more liberal than it used to be — partly, it appears, because of that polarizing Trumplash. In 2009, 32% of Democrats described themselves as liberals; this year, it was 46%.
On immigration, all 10 candidates in Thursday’s debate said they would allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in their healthcare plans, something Obama never proposed.
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