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Democrats are playing to lose

By Noemie Emery
Published July 25, 2019 7:40pm ET
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Democrats are playing to lose
Democratic presidential candidates, author Marianne Williamson, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., listen to a question during a Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. | (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Do the Democrats really want to beat President Trump in the 2020 election more than anything else in the world? They insist that they do, but the way they behave suggests otherwise.

If beating Trump were their priority, they would have focused their beams on the one-fifth of Trump voters who thought Trump was “unpresidential” and then moved heaven and earth to win them over.

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