Experience mattered in 2016, and Stacey Abrams doesn’t have it for 2020

Published May 21, 2020 6:05pm ET



There’s an idea floating out there that President Trump proved “experience” is only marginally important to voters. If that’s true, then who’s to say someone such as Stacey Abrams, with a resume about as thick as Prince William’s hair, should hesitate in feeling qualified to be vice president?

That’s decidedly not what Trump’s winning campaign proved. The only thing it proved is that a certain kind of experience can be more appealing than others.

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