Washington Post: “The controversy is part of a larger Democratic disagreement about what makes a candidate ‘electable,’ a term many party leaders have used in recent years to describe scripted, vetted, broadly acceptable contenders poised to capitalize on centrists’ anger with President Donald Trump.”
“After a dismal 2024 performance, Democrats are deciding whether they should embrace more tempered candidates or more pugnacious firebrands in primaries from Maine to Michigan this year.”
“The long-running debate about whether the party should focus more on turning out its base or persuading the middle was scrambled in 2024, when Democrats alienated young, non-White and irregular voters who defected to Trump. Large Democratic constituencies acted like swing voters and would not have voted Democratic even if they had turned out to the polls.”
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