National polls show any of the top three Democrats beating Trump.
Real Clear Politics
Sanders +7%
Warren +5.2%
Biden +11.5%
Pocahantas? Orange rapist! Orange liar! Let him try that! The push back will be horrific.
Warren has lots of experience handling children. I think she can handle Bonespurs.
The fact that she thought actually getting a DNA test was a good response to the accusation that she wasn't Native American indicates she doesn't know how to handle him. When Trump or his supporters disagree with you, they aren't disagreeing about the facts of the matter. They are expressing an emotion about something that gives them a sense of power to do so. If it isn't Pocahontas, it's anything else; it doesn't matter the topic. I've said this before, but politics is about emotional energy and feeling like you're on the right side of something big, not about having facts and logic to back up your assertions. Anybody who insists otherwise is just one of those people who derives emotional energy from having facts and logic--and they are perhaps even more emotionally driven than those who acknowledge it.
Secondly, the idea that debates decide the winner of elections, and that of all people
Donald Trump is some formidable debate opponent, is more fantastical wish-thinking from the West Wing contingent who thinks "if we could only refute all of his points, everyone would have no choice but to vote against him." It's a delusion that has never really been supported by election results compared to debate performances.
The person to beat Trump is the one who can build the largest base of support among the populations that
everyone in 2016 would not shut up about being the future of our party: young people, minorities, first-time voters, women, the working poor, blue-collar union members, farmers, and LGBTQIA people. Like it or not, that's the Democratic voter of this century going forward. They care about fighting climate change, having health care, having steady employment, economic mobility, not being in debt from their education, having reproductive freedom, and not being gunned down in a war or in a shopping mall. They are upset about the gender pay gap, the wealth inequality gap, the corporate takeover of all media, and the fact that they are living more precariously than their parents did at their age. The candidate who taps into this bloc and galvanizes them out of their apathy cannot be another run-of-the-mill centrist who takes donations from the same forces that are fucking us all over while promising to hold them accountable. It can't be someone running on the politics of civility, moderation, reaching across the aisle, compromising with the far right, or watering down legislation to appeal to insurance or pharma companies. These voters are jaded; they can see right through that, and will stay home if they smell it, because they know their vote won't change anything even if they voted.
