Michael Dukakis thinks Democrats are still not focusing enough on Donald Trump.
“I think we’ve got to start talking about Trump, because the guy’s getting away with murder,” Dukakis, the 1988 presidential Democratic nominee, said Thursday on CNN’s “New Day.” “He’s a screwball.”
Asked by Chris Cuomo if the Democratic Party — which has blasted Trump repeatedly through its convention this week — is sufficiently targeted him, Dukakis said “no,” pointing to the Republican nominee’s ongoing unwillingness to release his tax returns.
Then-Massachusetts Gov. Dukakis lost his race to George H.W. Bush, the sitting vice president who, like 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with President Barack Obama, presented himself to voters as an extension of the current commander-in-chief’s legacy — in his case Republican Ronald Reagan.
The living past Democratic presidential nominees are supporting Hillary Clinton and several are in Philadelphia for the convention. That contrasts sharply with the Republican convention in Cleveland last week, which the majority of past GOP nominees skipped.