Even though I gave the above posts a hard time, intuition says they're representative of the attitudes of many voters who swung to Trump. Not sure what the prospects are for winning them back and what effect that reality will have on the primaries. On the one hand, Democrats seem to be having some of electability jitters losing Republicans had 4 years ago. Remember when Rubio and Christie looked like they'd be well armed with electability cases in the primaries but maybe not enough to overcome Scott Walker's appeal to the base?
I’m not sure electability matters as much in an election with an incumbent. 2020 will probably be a referendum on Trump, so probably just about anyone capable of winning the nomination would be able to win the general election if Trump is unpopular. (And won't be able to win if he's popular.)
You’d think this logic would hold as well even in elections without an incumbent, but it often doesn’t work that way. E.g., Bill Clinton’s popularity not rubbing off on Gore, and ditto for Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Yeah, that's true. Which means Trump looking vulnerable might well attract a field the size of GOP 2016.
Can you think of 17 Democrats trying to defeat Trump?
