Being the anti-Trump isn't enough for Democratic candidates | By DeanObeidallah for CNNOpinion
Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program"The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
President Richard Nixon, in the middle of the Watergate scandal, famously said,"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook." In the case of Donald Trump, America has already weighed in on that issue. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll,"64% of voters said Trump had committed crimes before entering office.
And sure, it would be tempting for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to capitalize on this, and make Trump's past actions their No. 1 issue during the Democratic primary contest. But they shouldn't. It's Mueller time - buckle up, America By now, American voters are very familiar with who Trump is. There's a reason why Trump has the highest disapproval rating of any modern president: almost 53%. Even Jimmy Carter, who lost re-election, only had a 39.
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