#Barack Obama, top Democrats warn against ‘complacency’ in 2020 election

Top Democrats are warning the faithful not to get too comfortable about the party’s chances in the 2020 presidential election.

Though President Trump is mired in the COVID-19 pandemic, economic upheavals and racial unrest, that alone may not spell victory for former Vice President Joe Biden in November, they warn.

“We can’t be complacent or smug or suggest that somehow it’s so obvious that this president hasn’t done a good job,” Obama told thousands of donors online in his first joint fundraiser with Biden. “He won once, and it’s not like we didn’t have a good clue as to how he was going to operate the last time.”

The party remains scarred by rosy 2016 poll numbers that showed Hillary Clinton cruising to victory in states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — which ultimately went for Trump by razor-thin margins and helped swing the election. Just weeks before the vote, The New York Times declared Clinton had a 91% chance of becoming president.

“If the election were held today, I think Biden would win Michigan,” Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell said. “But the Trump supporters are out there, and they’re still intense.”

With Post wires