America's conscience Matthew Dowd certain 'every Dem running will be favored to beat Trump'

Remember on Election Day 2016 when this was considered a conservative estimate?

Our latest polls-only forecast gives Clinton a 72% chance to win the presidency: https://t.co/2uB2oq8m9u pic.twitter.com/U5JB7MUK6B

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) November 8, 2016

Well, ABC News chief political analyst and independent Matthew Dowd knows for a fact that every Democrat running will be favored to beat President Donald Trump in 2020.

Since every Dem running will be favored to beat Trump in 2020, maybe the focus of primary voters should not be on who is most electable, but who would make best President in this moment of incivility and division.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) January 12, 2019

In this moment of incivility and division? That’s a good way of putting it. Or, as newly seated Rep. Rashida Tlaib put it, “We’re gonna impeach that motherf**ker!” To give Dowd credit, though, he did call for Tlaib to apologize — and got dragged big time by his followers.

We like this tweet because it’s a great reminder that even though Republicans are divided into #MAGA and #NeverTrump camps who will face the ballot box in 2020, Democrats aren’t exactly united either. Do you vote for the “electable” candidate in an environment in which Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was electable?

Do you mean someone who would lead with a healing temperament? I observe the incivility and division to be mostly manufactured and cajoled from one direction.

— Allie (@alliegoldenpen) January 12, 2019

Yes, who can heal the country best.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) January 12, 2019

Core problem is not 'incivility and division.' It is that one party is under heavy ongoing influence by a foreign power and has become irredeemably corrupt.

The new president must restore our core institutions and commitment to democracy and rule of law.

— PublicSquare (@wesgeorgia951) January 12, 2019

Unless voting is paper ballots only all talk here is folly

— MEB1031 (@BrownlieChiro) January 12, 2019

I don’t want a candidate that will be favored to beat Trump but one that will beat Trump. There is a difference (see 2016 election).

— Shawn Rogers (@srogers913) January 12, 2019

Why would anyone want to try to unite with the people who support President Vendetta?

They need an act of personal contrition, otherwise just leave them. I don't want them on the team.

— Stephen M Carter (@StephenMCarter4) January 12, 2019

Yeah no.
We Dems played nice with you GOPers and let you deny being for the rich and secretly racists for decades and then you gave us Trump
The #BlueWave wasnt about winning over white soccer moms it was about empowering women and minorities, theres more of us leftists than you.

— JAIL TRUMP (@CatDaddyLV) January 12, 2019

When was it again that Democrats played nice with Republicans? When Harry Reid’s friend told him Mitt Romney hadn’t paid his taxes in years?

Attempting to focus on electability may be worst path to victory.

Carter, Clinton, and Obama were not viewed as electable before primaries.

Mondale (VP), Dukakis (Mass gov), Gore (VP/Southern Dem), Kerry (Military), Clinton (woman) were all pushed as most electable, all lost.

— DavidDunn (@ImDavidDunn) January 12, 2019

We tried polls & who would be better, we lost.

— Lisa (@Lga911Kelly) January 12, 2019

Good idea. Who do you think that is? (Hint: it’s Beto)

— Quint (@QuintOlsen) January 12, 2019

Klobuchar. The 2020 reboot of “Sense and Sensibility”

— MrRavini (@MrRavini) January 12, 2019

May not offer glitz and glamour of others but Amy Klobuchar is solid, real, civil, and consensus building.

— Dan (@daninsacramento) January 12, 2019

Castro is the guy.

— Gary Bostwick (@tallskinnyguy) January 12, 2019

Biden/Harris 2020, Harris/O’Rourke 2024

— leslie woods (@law638) January 12, 2019

It’s a choice between and needs to include at least one of these @amyklobuchar @JoaquinCastrotx @AndrewGillum @RepJoeKennedy

— Annie M (@AnnieMendelsohn) January 12, 2019

Hint: it’s not Tulsi https://t.co/OgN8CqXdjE

— 4thCornerGirl (@4thcornergal) January 12, 2019

But how is everyone running favoured? The polls dont show that at all

— Noah H. (@NoahHeijnen) January 12, 2019

I don't think everyone running is favored to beat Trump and this kind of arrogance is what got us Trump in the first place.

— Kevin Deal (@kevinjdeal) January 12, 2019

Nope. It’s who is most electable. Can not take chances. We can’t afford it.

— Mike in Jax (@kayakphish) January 12, 2019

Ok, but what are the odds we all agree on who that is?

— Quint (@QuintOlsen) January 12, 2019

Hopefully we can at least agree on someone that half the country doesn’t already hate.

— Mike in Jax (@kayakphish) January 12, 2019

No
Democrats have to focus on the electoral college. Win Florida, Ohio, Texas.

— Tim O'Neill (@TimONeill49) January 13, 2019

We should have a do-over. Bring Obama back until a new and legit election can be run. And, if not that scenario, we should put the rightful and duly elected by the people, president in office, HILLARY!!!!

— Marsha Wood (@marshawoo) January 12, 2019

Wouldn’t Michelle Obama be the Democrat with the most electability? She has the highest approval rating of any of them. Unfortunately, she’ll never run.

— Jennifer T. Senick (@carebear021781) January 12, 2019