Democrats seek counterweight to Trump's message in 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grappling with the realities of President Donald Trump's reign, Democrats are trying to offer a counterweight to the president's message — without making it all about Trump.
An annual conference organized by a prominent Democratic leaning think tank Tuesday included an early glimpse at some of the Democrats plotting a challenge to Trump in 2020. But it also laid bare some of the challenges Democrats face in opposing a president whose presence has been all-consuming and in developing an alternative agenda to reach voters who turned to Trump in 2016.
"What they want to hear about is the economy and their plans for it. They don't want to hear about Donald Trump every single minute," Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said at the Center for American Progress' Ideas Conference. "We resist, but we also insist on a better way forward."
The lineup at the daylong conference featured appearances by several potential 2020 candidates, including Klobuchar, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Also speaking: former Housing Secretary Julian Castro and current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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