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The Democratic Presidential Field

Calvin Trillin

December 17, 2019

President Barack Obama speaks at Concord Community High School in Elkhart, Indiana, on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The leading candidates present a plight: They’re mostly old, and they’re completely white. They need, to keep the plight from getting starker, To add someone not old and somewhat darker. Some Democrats may ask, as worries grow, “You think Barack would like another go?”

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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