Chris Cillizza writes:

As Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he is running for president for a third time, one unlikely group was cheering him on: Democrats.

“As an American, the idea of another Trump campaign and all of his lies and divisiveness and his efforts to undermine American democracy is an absolute horror show,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, told The New York Times ahead of Trump’s announcement. “On the other hand, I got to say that as a politician who wants to see that no Republican is elected to the White House in 2024, from that perspective, his candidacy is probably a good thing.”

“I think we would all like Donald Trump to run again,” Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor and Democratic National Committee chairman, said in a recent interview.

And there’s political logic here. The simple fact is that Trump has never won a majority of the national vote. [Continue reading…]