Posted on 02/19/2019 2:09:16 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Democrats have four tough, smart, qualified women in the Senate running for president. And that might be a problem, because they just tried that against Donald Trump, and it didnt work in 2016.
Its not that Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand wouldnt each make an excellent president. Like Hillary Clinton, its clear that they have all put a great deal of thought into how theyll run and how they would lead.
Theyve done the hard work of designing policy-specific platforms; theyve built their early organizations; and all four have put together travel-heavy, strategic early-state rollouts. So far, they have come off as professional, earnest and conventional - in other words, so similar to Clinton that its hard to see why the results of their campaigns against Trump would be any different than hers was.
Millions of suburban women gave control of the House to Democrats in the midterms, after all, in a bid to slow Trumps roll.
But the irony of so many Democratic women running for president this cycle is that they will all need to do much more going forward to distinguish themselves from each other for voters, above and beyond making history. And theyll need to show how theyre different enough from Clinton that they can win over people who didnt vote for Clinton in 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Do all of these people with a government job who are running for president give back their paychecks for all the days they will be off campaigning?
Asking for a friend.......
She stole $6 billion from the State dept when she ran it. She bought nominations and killed those in her way.
Odd how journalists don't feel the need to tell us the men running are 'smart'... Ever wonder why?
I find it funny that nobody comments about Gilibrand. She was Hillary’s successor in the Senate, and SHE’S RUNNING??11
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