How will Democrats handle their blue-collar blues?

Politico reports that Democrats aren’t keen on having Bill Clinton help out in this year’s campaigns, what with #MeToo consciousness so high. Too bad that leaves them without any major figure to appeal to working-class voters.

Party figures tried to be diplomatic about it. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) told Politicothat the ex-president “just brings up a lot of issues that will be very tough for Democrats” and their messaging.

Clinton’s past is just too vivid a reminder that sexual abuse is a bipartisan problem, ifHarvey Weinstein & Co. weren’t enough.

Former President Barack Obama can’t help much: He’s popular with the base, not with swing voters; his policies prompted thousands of counties to switch from Democratic in 2008 to Republican in 2016.

Yet Democrats suddenly aren’t polling too well: just a point or two ahead of Republicans on the “generic congressional ballot.”

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