In 2020, the party’s presidential nominee could recapture the big, historically blue states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, but still lose the Electoral College by two votes, 270-268, if Donald Trump ekes out another narrow victory in Wisconsin — a state he won by just .7 percentage points in 2016.
Here’s something that should keep Democrats up at night. In 2020, the party’s presidential nominee could recapture the big, historically blue states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, but still lose the Electoral College by two votes, 270-268, if Donald Trump ekes out another narrow victory in Wisconsin — a state he won by just .7 percentage points in 2016.
Story continues“Elizabeth’s decision to forgo high-dollar fundraisers and call-time means she’s doing the work of building a grassroots movement — state by state, face to face,” says Warren spokeswoman Saloni Sharma. “She’s looking forward to being in Milwaukee to hear from voters about the issues important to them.”
But more important than Wikler’s progressive CV was the recurring theme that ran through it: a winning track record of grassroots activism and organizing, from his ability to secure more public-school funding as a teenager to his successful fight at MoveOn to help prevent Trump Republicans from repealing Obamacare in 2017.
Democrats continue to enjoy a polling advantage today; the most recent nonpartisan Wisconsin poll shows every single major Democratic candidate outpacing Trump in a head-to-head matchup. In a Marquette Law School poll from early April, 46 percent of respondents said that they would definitely vote against Trump if the election were held today, compared to 28 percent who would definitely vote for him.
“That race illustrated that there’s this intense polarization and interest on both sides,” Wikler says. “If there was any doubt that we can’t take anything for granted, it was vaporized after that.”First, by out-organizing the opposition. “Given how razor-close these races have been, there’s an overwhelming chance 2020 will be won or lost based on field organizing at the end,” Wikler says. “That informs our battle plan.
The Democratic Party’s “core challenge,” Wikler explains, is to “fight the election on ground where Democrats have tremendous strength and public support” — and to start early. Right now that means sending volunteers to knock on doors in Republican districts to talk about the state GOP’s current effort to block Gov. Evers from expanding Medicaid — an expansion that 70 percent of Wisconsinites favor.
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