Most 2020 Democrats Have Had Little Success in Trump Country
- Home-state records show relatively few wins in red counties
- Klobuchar so far has best performance in areas president won
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The path to the White House for Democrats runs, in part, through Trump country. Yet few of the candidates running for the party’s nomination have demonstrated much ability to win on the president’s territory.
Only three of the major Democratic contenders hail from states Donald Trump won in 2016, and most of the candidates who’ve run for statewide office haven’t had to -- or been able to -- win where the president was strong, a Bloomberg analysis of county-by-county election results since 2014 shows.