Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track
- Speaker questions appeal of Medicare For All, Green New Deal
- Ideas could repel voters in swing Midwestern states, she says
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020: Those liberal ideas that fire up the party’s base are a big loser when it comes to beating President Donald Trump.
Proposals pushed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders like Medicare for All and a wealth tax play well in liberal enclaves like her own district in San Francisco but won’t sell in the Midwestern states that sent Trump to the White House in 2016, she said.