Justin Krebs, a campaign director with MoveOn, isn’t interested in hearing pundits debate which 2020 Democratic candidate is the most “electable.”
“Because exactly four years ago right now there was a messy, crowded primary, with too many candidates, people who were totally unelectable, and Donald Trump was one of them and ended up winning,” he pointed out.
And in the same vein, many Democrats thought Barack Obama was unelectable until he started winning primaries in 2008.
Progressives say this word “electability” is being used as a fear tactic to intimidate voters into choosing a moderate, centrist nominee, specifically, former Vice President Joe Biden. But many of the activists who gathered over the weekend at the Netroots Nation conference insisted that’s a foolish strategy.
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