Steve Bullock: Trump reelection 'more likely with each passing minute'
'We cannot defeat Trump's politics of personal destruction if we practice self-destruction,' he told a roomful of reporters in D.C.
As Montana Gov. Steve Bullock stood on the debate stage last week and listened to his 2020 rivals bicker and criticize one another, visions of a second term for President Donald Trump kept flashing through his mind.
“I saw his reelection becoming more likely with each passing minute,” Bullock said Wednesday at the National Press Club. “Please permit me to take everyone out of the ‘Twitterverse’ for at least a minute and bring us back to Earth. We cannot defeat Trump's politics of personal destruction if we practice self-destruction.”
Driving his point home, he added, "We are well on our way to losing this election long before it ever really has started.”The Democratic governor of a state Trump won in 2016 by more than 20 percentage points, Bullock said Democrats need to appeal not only to liberals in Burlington, Vt., but also to folks in Billings, Mont. Against that backdrop, Bullock laid out his thinking on gun control, health care and other topics to a roomful of journalists in Washington.
On health care, Bullock said calls by other candidates to eliminate private insurance are political suicide in a general election. Voters are looking for practical solutions, he said, and radical plans for government-run health care aren't helpful.
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"It’s now the Democrats calling to repeal and replace Obamacare," Bullock said. "If you propose abolishing private insurance, you will lose."
Extending health insurance to undocumented immigrants is also a surefire loser, he said. "We need border security. But we need sanity," Bullock said. "Every action cannot be a reaction to a Trump."
A recent
Morning Consult poll had Bullock at 1 percent, but he insisted he isn’t worried. He plans to keep targeting early voting states and predicted his background as a successful red-state governor will turn people in his favor.
“I guarantee you if I’m the nominee … I’m going to carry Vermont, Massachusetts and California,” he added. “But I wonder if the senators from Vermont, Massachusetts and California can make same that guarantee of carrying Montana, or Michigan or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.”
Steve Bullock: Trump reelection 'more likely with each passing minute'
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