They worry the primary may produce a nominee who will not appeal to centrist working and middle-class voters who voted for Trump in 2016 but whom Democrats believe they can win back. A person familiar with the president’s thinking told Reuters that Trump had been looking for a “big contrast issue” to help power his 2020 bid. In recent speeches, including his State of the Union address and again this week in Florida, a key 2020 battleground, Trump used the crisis in Venezuela to equate Democrats with socialists. Recent Democratic presidential nominees such as Clinton, Obama and John Kerry ran as centrists. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is one of the few Democrats in the presidential field to push back at the progressive agenda.

Source: Pakistan Today February 23, 2019 17:26 UTC