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A leftover from this weekend’s official Beto O’Rourke launch rally. Watch the clip below and you’ll see that the question in the headline isn’t presented as a complaint. It’s not “What’s wrong with Democratic voters that the three best-polling candidates in the field right now are white dudes?†It’s a straightforward curiosity: Post-Obama, post-Hillary, when multiple black candidates *and* multiple women are running and the Democratic Party is leaning more heavily than ever on women and minorities for votes, what explains the fact that Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Beto O’Rourke tend to be the top three in most polls — and meanwhile the biggest breakout star from the lower tiers thus far is Pete Buttigieg, another white guy?
Did Michael Avenatti have it right after all?
He said:
A run for President would thrust Avenatti into the middle of the party’s identity crisis. The Democrats have not been this powerless since the 1920s, and their members have responded by nominating a historic number of women and people of color for office. But when it comes to the party’s presidential nominee in 2020, Avenatti thinks in different terms. “I think it better be a white male,†he says. He hastens to add that he wishes it weren’t so, but it’s undeniable that people listen to white men more than they do others; it’s why he’s been successful representing Daniels and immigrant mothers, he says. “When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight,†he says. “Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.â€
Nia-Malika Henderson says in the clip that she’s heard that point from voters practically verbatim. Can Democrats siphon off votes from Trump’s white working-class base if it’s not a white man making the pitch to them?
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