From Breezy Beto to Wonky Warren: How Candidates Use Policy
1 min readPhoto caption: O’Rourke’s too charismatic for white papers; Warren has a proposal for every occasion. Photo credit: Mark Wilson / Getty Images; Drew Angerer / Getty Images. Article by
As one might expect from a presidential field as large as the one Democrats are assembling for 2020, there are a variety of approaches to developing, rolling out, and talking about policy proposals. Indeed, given the natural obsession Democrats have about electability in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s shocking loss to Donald Trump in 2016, there’s been quite a bit of buzz about candidates’ policies — or the lack thereof — early in the current cycle. […]