More here: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/17/how-jason-kander-won-by-losing-215271Kanders Senate race ended seven months ago. He lost.
At the dinner, right in the heart of presidential hopeful pilgrimage territory, Kander delivered a version of a speech hes been doing all over the country since Novemberthe resistance hes seen to Donald Trump, what Democrats need to remember about themselves, the story of the Afghan translator who surprised him by not caring that he was Jewish, and a reminder that yeah, hes the guy from the viral ad taking apart the rifle with the blindfold on.
If this were a season of The Apprentice, Donald Trump would have fired Donald Trump! Donald Trump won the election, but he did not win the argument! If we work together, we can save the American dream from the nightmare that is Donald Trump!
That was Friday night. Next stop was Saturday morning in Worcester, to gush about Elizabeth Warren at the Massachusetts state Democratic convention, then to Kentucky that night for the Young Democrats Convention. On Friday, he hit Salt Lake City for the Utah Democratic Party Taylor Mayne Dinner. Saturday night, its Ottumwa for the Iowa Democratic Party Dinner, before going to Atlanta on Monday to headline the campaign kick-off for Georgia governor hopeful Stacey Abrams. He even gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Committee elections meeting in Atlanta in February.
The 36-year-old Kanderwho came shockingly close to ousting Missouris Republican Sen. Roy Blunt last November despite Hillary Clintons blowout loss in the statehas been a man in demand the last seven months, starting with a major Iowa progressive group that reached out after the election to ask him to come to its holiday party. He drew a slightly bigger crowd than Bernie Sanders had at the same event two years earlier. Hes kept doing presidential-ish travel and generating presidential-ish buzz, though the highest office hes ever held is secretary of stateof Missouri.
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