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Petula Dvorak: Maybe scandal-plagued Joe Morrissey is the best Democrat to take on Trump

Here he is, right here in Virginia — the Democrat’s best true hope for winning the White House in 2020: Joe Morrissey.

But the proper way to challenge Trump isn’t to aim high with candidates who are experienced and effective lawmakers or Rhodes scholars or Harvard graduates or military veterans — people who have actual plans to solve some of our nation’s biggest crises.

No, this new era of American reality show politics - with a president who has totally rewritten the qualifications for the nation’s highest office — calls for a candidate who can go low with flair.