VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- In the Trump era, the suburbs have been Democrats' surprising superpower.A revolt by college-educated voters, largely women, in suburbs from Virginia Beach to Oklahoma City, from Houston to Southern California, delivered the House majority to Democrats in 2018. Driven by anxiety
A revolt by college-educated voters, largely women, in suburbs from Virginia Beach to Oklahoma City, from Houston to Southern California, delivered the House majority to Democrats in 2018. Driven by anxiety over guns, health care and the environment, and recoiling from President Donald Trump’s caustic leadership, suburban voters are widely seen as a critical bloc for any Democratic victory in 2020.
“People are going to say, do you want him or do you want a socialist?” she said of the prospect of Sanders as the nominee. It was “kind of scary” to see Trump congratulating Sanders on his primary wins, she said. “What does that tell you?” Biden’s victory in South Carolina, and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s decision to quit the race Sunday night, may reset the field going into Super Tuesday on March 3, when 16 states and territories vote. Until recently, Biden and Sanders have jostled for the polling lead in Virginia, with Bloomberg also contending. In his victory speech Saturday night, Biden took aim at Sanders as a divisive figure.
“It’s clear that the path to the majority for us in Virginia in 2017, 2018 and 2019 was Democrats picking candidates in the primary who could talk to independents and bring them to our side in the general election,” said former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who on Saturday endorsed Biden after his commanding South Carolina win. “In order to beat Trump, we need a nominee who is inclusive and can build a broad coalition.
There were potential warning signs for Democrats in the poll should Sanders become the nominee: Nearly 1 in 5 suburban Democrats said they would not support him against Trump in November. Glen Besa, a suburbanite from Chesterfield County, who stood out from the many college students because of his age, said his first vote was for George McGovern, the Democratic nominee who lost in a landslide in 1972 — but he rejected any analogy to Sanders. “Times have changed and we have fundamental issues that haven’t been addressed since ’72,” he said.
A Sanders candidacy might threaten the 2020 prospects of two vulnerable Democratic congresswomen in Virginia who won Republican-held seats in the 2018 midterms: Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer who won a suburban district outside Richmond; and Rep. Elaine Luria, a retired Navy commander who won in Virginia Beach.
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