Two high-profile members of the Obama administration are trying to get out ahead of the game, making a series of excuses for a potential Democratic loss that’s still more than a year away.
Steve Rattner, the former president’s Treasury Secretary, and Jon Favreau, an Obama administration speechwriter who has since become a prominent political commentator, both claimed Monday that a Democratic loss may be inevitable, but that Democrats, who are running on a platform much further to the left than should sit well with a majority of American voters, definitely don’t have themselves to blame.
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But those are all quantifiable reasons for a Democratic loss — in fact, they’re things the Democrats could address now in order to prevent failure later. Jon Favreau’s commentary is a little more dire and, like Hillary Clinton’s claims of Russian interference, conspiratorial.
According to Favreau, Democrats can’t win, because the media is just so darned biased. – READ MORE