Why the battle for the suburbs is Democrats’ key to winning 2020
almost 5 years in The guardian
Democrats swept the House in 2018 in a ‘suburban revolt’ – and there’s ‘no way’ they could win the presidency without keeping the trend, experts say
After presidential debates in Miami, Detroit and Houston, the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination will face off once again on Tuesday night, not in a big city or a sprawling metropolis, but instead in Westerville, Ohio, an affluent suburb north-east of the state capital, Columbus.
Westerville is perhaps best known locally as the place the former Ohio state governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich calls home. But it – and suburbs like it – is also, Democrats say, “ground zero” in the battle for the White House in 2020. Continue reading...
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