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In a This Week discussion about the prospects for different Democratic 2020 candidates on Sunday, ABC’s faux Republicans Matthew Dowd proclaimed that the Democratic Party was much closer to what the rest of the country believed than the Republican Party was. On top of that, Newsweek and Daily Beast writer Michael Tomasky suggested that a candidate with low name ID like Washington Governor Jay Inslee could “very easily” beat President Trump.
Dowd’s pontification came towards the end of the program and after Republican strategist Sara Fagen warned Democrats that their mad scramble further to the left was going to have dire consequences for them:
SARA FAGEN: The Democratic Party has moved farther to the left -- will move farther to the left by the end of the process than the Republican Party moved to the right over the last decade, and the most important and arguably influential Democrat isn't able to run. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and she's the intellectual drive now on the Democratic Party, and we see these candidates falling over themselves to adopt her positions and it's so going to be very costly.
“But where most voters are, are much closer to where the Democrats are than where the Republicans are,” Dowd scoffed. “Most voters support dealing deal with climate change.”
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