Jimmy Carter is emerging as a political inspiration to Democratic long shots eager to find a path from relative obscurity to national success with a scandal-weary electorate. gdebenedetti reports
Suddenly an icon. Photo: Scott Cunningham/Getty Images Steve Bullock hears the comparison from time to time, and he doesn’t exactly shy away from it. There’s no denying that his 2020 campaign — a youngish, little-known liberal governor of a pretty red state planning to spend a ton of time crisscrossing Iowa while pitching himself as an anti-corruption outsider — and Jimmy Carter’s 1976 bid have plenty in common. “People will certainly make all kinds of different parallels.
Nearly four decades after he left the White House — and after spending essentially that entire time as a political pariah, his name a political slur wielded by Republicans aiming to paint Democratic candidates as weak or ineffective — Carter is enjoying an unexpected moment in Democrats’ 2020 primary, as a source of advice to some candidates, but mostly as a political inspiration to a field full of historically conscious long shots eager to find a path from relative obscurity to national...
Still, his politics remain complicated: He is far from a mainstream Democrat these days. He has interacted on occasion with Donald Trump over North Korea and Chinese trade issues, and he’s angered some in his own party with his criticism of Israel. Meanwhile, though he’s revealed that he voted for Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, he’s also warned Democrats not to swing too far to the left in 2020, or risk reelecting Trump.
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