Subject: Re: The Border ,jeh johnson , why can’t
he idea is to run a person who can get 55% of the vote and unite 70 % of the country. No one can be expected to do more than that.

That cannot happen in modern politics.

No presidential candidate has captured 55% of the vote since Ronald Reagan's re-election in 1984.

No new presidential candidate has captured 55% of the vote since LBJ in 1964.

If Jeh Johnson were to run for President and obtain the Democratic nomination, whatever respect you currently have for him based on his iconoclastic positions as a Democratic border hawk would dissipate immediately. It would be overwhelmed by GOP/conservative positioning of all of his more standard Democratic positions as being more important than being half right on a single issue.