What the Democrats need is someone who will get dems to the polls come election day.

Democrats in contested states.

We win the popularity contest, time and again, but because we keep picking blue-state Democrats, we keep losing elections.

If we would ever pick a Democratic candidate who has actually won an election in a red state, the election would be a runaway landslide, and the GOP would have to come crawling left.

Because we abandon the Red and contested states entirely, the GOP is free to run candidates like Trump.