Can a woman beat Trump? Some Democrats wonder if it's worth the risk

NBC News ^ | 4/28/2019 | Lauren Egan

[simpson96]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Democratic voters say that more than anything, they want to beat President Donald Trump in 2020. But some worry that means putting their hope of electing the first woman president on hold.

"I can hardly think about it. It makes me sick thinking about how nasty this could get for a woman,” Marianne Mason said, clutching her stomach as she waited for Sen. Kamala Harris of California to arrive at a town hall event at the University of Iowa on a recent Wednesday night. "How are they supposed to rebut someone like Trump? I want to see a woman in the White House, I really do. But I just don’t know if it can happen against him."

Mason, 67, of Iowa City, is not alone in her thinking. In conversations with dozens of Democratic primary voters — men and women — across several states, voters told NBC News that Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016 made them rethink how willing Americans are to vote for a woman for president, especially when pitted against Trump. For some, the risk of four more years of a Trump presidency is not worth another attempt to break the final glass ceiling for women.

Although many of these voters said they recognize that the "electability" question is often unfairly aimed at women running for office, they stressed the need to be realistic about an electorate they view as sexist and a president who they say is only too eager to launch gender-based attacks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The 2020 election is LOST to the DIMs already.

Let's not get too cocky. The election is a long way off, and lots of ugly things could happen.

Georgy Soros could trigger a worldwide recession timed to coincide with the end game of this campaign.

The Deep State could cast the ol' .38 caliber electoral vote against Trump, leaving Mike Pence to be demolished as a religious extremist on the order of the Ayatollah.

etc.

[rlmorel]

It has been decades since I viewed anyone on the Left as having even a smidgen of rationality.

Actually, not quite true. The last one in the Democrat Party who seemed rational and decent to me was Zell Miller's Legacy

When he left the Democrat Party, he turned off the lights on his way out.