You! This is The race for the Democratic nomination is wavered between two questions.

Who did Democrats want to be president?

And who did Democrats think could beat President Trump?

Answering the second question isn't so straightforward. Politics has changed rapidly and Trump has shaken everything up.

But, there was once an accepted wisdom on good general election candidates and our guest this week would seem to fit that template.

He's a governor, executive experience a government was, until recently, key to winning the

White House.

He's the only Democrat who won statewide in 2016 in a state that went for Trump.

Politics used to be a battle for the middle, but now politicians spend more time tending to their bases.

He even has a moving personal story tied to what has become one of the campaign's key issues.

In his case, guns.

Now you may have been able to guess who I'm talking about, but many of you won't.

And that's not a surprise.

He's been stuck in the 1% range of polls.

And while he made the August debate, he was not on stage last week in Houston.

He's Montana Governor Steve Bullock.

A lot of folks have called for him to do what another governor in the race did.

John Hickinloper, the former Governor of Colorado, dropped out and is now running for Senate.

So we talk about why Bullock doesn't see himself doing that,

why his candidacy, which might have been taken more seriously in the past,

hasn't, at least so far, caught on in today's environment,

and why he thinks the country needs his experience specifically

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