Former president Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a town hall meeting in Berlin on April 6. By Annie Linskey Annie Linskey National political reporter focused on the 2020 presidential campaign Email Bio Follow May 23 at 6:00 AM Beto O’Rourke frequently praises former president Barack Obama, calling him “an extraordinary leader” at a campaign stop this week. But when O’Rourke is talking policy, he shies away from big parts of the Obama agenda.
At the same time, Trump’s norm-busting presidency has prompted some Democrats to rethink not just the past election but the past few decades of political history. They are calling for fundamental shifts and invoking leaders who significantly reshaped American life, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, rather than recent Democratic presidents who achieved smaller changes, including Obama and Bill Clinton.
“One after another, they are re-litigating the decisions made by Obama,” Hundt said. “And why is that? It’s because tragically and in an unpredicted and a heartbreaking way, those decisions in 2008 did create the opportunity that Donald Trump seized.” Two of the more left-leaning candidates seeking the Democratic nomination, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders , took on Obama even when he was in office. Warren helped sink one of his Treasury Department nominees, delivered floor speeches attacking his personnel decisions and battled his trade policies.
The balance isn’t always easy. Many energized liberal activists are rethinking the Obama years. But the former president remains very popular in the party, and more than 70 percent of New Hampshire Democrats in a recent Monmouth University poll said it was either “very” or “somewhat” important to nominate a candidate who would build on Obama’s legacy.
Other candidates also praise Obama, who retains loyalty especially among African American voters. Warren often touts her ties to the former president, noting that he tapped her to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and occasionally sharing an anecdote about chatting with him in the White House. On CNN recently, she declined to say how she would govern differently from Obama.
We desperately need a viable third party
Which outlines how completely stupid democrats are. They are no longer Americans and need to be removed as a party.
Good. BarackObama is an honorable man (something in very short supply these days) but a big disappointment as president.
good. his policies were not progressive.
What the India landslide and today's early EU election polls and very downplayed voter polls here is the electorate is moving opposite to the Progressives. As their demand identity politics and socialistic redistribution and supression of any but their mandated voters refuse
It's proven his policies didn't work but President Trump's policies do. That's why Democrats can't win a policy election and are reverting to a 'win by investigation' strategy. It'll backfire.
Well well. What a surprise... Devilcrats embrace the guy who will most likely ultimately, in time, be found guilty of weaponizing a justice dept to secure a FISA warrant based on known false info in order to spy on a presidential candidate/ US citizen. nosurprise
Math supporters all over the world unite over yang2020
Obama has had his time and he elevated people through his policies and actions. Now it is time to pass the torch to PeteButtigieg 🇺🇸 2020 who is as diplomatic, intelligent and qualified. Don't let ego in the way of your patriotic duties, vote for the most qualified candidate.
So it’s more far left than his?
Democrats lost over 1000 seats because of Obama. Despite the media's best attempts to convince people that dem policies and especially Obama are popular, these politicians know it isn't. They have the internal polling.
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