“I’m not confident at all. I think the easiest way to ensure Trump’s reelection is to be overconfident. Too many Democrats are looking at national polls and finding them encouraging,” said Sen. Chris Coons, (D-Del.), a close ally of Joe Biden. “Too many Democrats assumed that Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in and didn’t vote or didn’t work.”
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), who calls herself “Debbie Downer” for repeatedly raising the alarm in Democratic circles, said she heard directly from people in her district that they plan to vote for Trump in 2020…
“In 2016 we thought for sure we were going to win in Minnesota. And Trump lost by only a point and a half,” said Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), who is running for reelection this fall. Surveying the protests, pandemic and economic collapse, she expressed the uncertainty her party is facing: “We didn’t even know six months ago that any of this was going to happen. So, what’s going to happen over the next 20 weeks?”
Yet in interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators, including many from swing states, there’s an emerging feeling that this moment is not like four years ago, when Trump shocked the world. Trump is doing worse in the polls, has a controversial record as president and is facing a more popular opponent in Biden than he did in Clinton.
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