Democratic candidates need to present realistic policies that can defeat Trump in 2020

Letter to the Editor

If the gutless Congressional Republicans thwart President Trump’s impeachment, then my Democratic presidential primary vote goes to the candidate most likely to defeat him.

Jackie Robinson’s pre-election endorsement of Richard Nixon versus Jack Kennedy (1960), Robinson later called mistaken, determined my first presidential vote. That initiated my invariably policy-centered voting, recently Democratic, but defeating Trump is now my paramount goal.

Many share my emphasis. A recent poll showed 57 percent of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents favor a nominee who can defeat T...

 

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