Everything seems to be going Democrats’ way. But many in the party just can’t get 2016 off their minds.
"I'm not confident at all. I think the easiest way to ensure Trump's reelection is to be overconfident. Too many Democrats are looking at national polls and finding them encouraging,” said Sen. Chris Coons, (D-Del.), a close ally of Joe Biden. “Too many Democrats assumed that Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in and didn't vote or didn't work.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), who calls herself “Debbie Downer” for repeatedly raising the alarm in Democratic circles, said she heard directly from people in her district that they plan to vote for Trump in 2020.
Aside from winning the House back in 2018 and saving Obamacare, there has been little good news. Democrats have been steamrolled on tax cuts and Supreme Court picks and they face a brutal deficit on lower-level courts. Their impeachment effort led to a near unanimous acquittal in the Senate by the GOP, empowering the president to oust witnesses who testified against him from their government posts. He's acted with near impunity since.
