Democrats, facing a big candidate field, ask: Who is most electable over Trump?

WASHINGTON - Marcus Scott is looking for a Democratic presidential candidate who will be rude to Donald Trump. Kara LaMarche wants an upbeat, positive approach. Ben Dion wants a nominee with experience and gravitas. Linds Jakows has had it with older white men in power.

Those voters, like fellow Democrats across the country, seek very different things in the big and growing presidential candidate field. But they share one top priority: Picking a nominee who will beat President Donald Trump in 2020.

A year from now, on March 3, 2020, candidates will be competing for primary votes in nine states in the first day of multistate voting. By then, the candidates will have been tested in the four early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, where Democrats already have a curbside seat for the parade of candidates campaigning