Democrats are pushing back against a feeling of fatalism within the party, insisting Donald Trump’s newfound vigor and status as a martyr do not mean the election is over.
Asked whether Trump’s victory was as inevitable as some pundits and prominent social media figures have been suggesting, top Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher fumed to the Daily Beast in an email, “The premise is absurd. The only thing inevitable is the absurdity of how we continue to cover this race.”
He added that a candidate who “has a roughly 46/47 percent ceiling,” as Trump does with the general electorate, is nothing if not precariously balanced on the edge of defeat.
