There are 20-plus Democrats competing for the party's 2020 presidential nomination, but only five are from reliably GOP areas. "I came up in San Antonio that was almost 50-50 Republican/Democrat," Castro said, though politics there now are far more liberal. Those 2020 Democrats from Republican strongholds may have an advantage over their competitors, however, because they won't have to answer for more liberal-policies common in Democratic areas. Buttigieg largely refrains from criticizing his native state but sees "coming from a fairly blue city in a purple county in a red state" as an advantage. Gillibrand notes she was introduced during a recent visit to Iowa as being from "the Iowa part of New York."

Source: Economic Times May 05, 2019 12:22 UTC