Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), right, with Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa). Because Trump won by casting himself as the ultimate outsider to a political system that lots and lots of Americans — in both parties — hate. In the piece, Kraushaar writes the following about Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota:He’s emerged as one of the Demo­crats’ most ag­gress­ive and ef­fect­ive ques­tion­ers of Pres­id­ent Trump’s Cab­in­et nom­in­ees. Franken won voters without a college degree by eight points in his 2014 reelection race; he won white voters without a college degree by four points. If Trump has truly changed all political calculus as to how you run and win, however, Franken starts to look like a more appealing choice than anyone — including Al Franken — might have thought a few years ago.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2017 17:34 UTC