Democrats Vow to Go After Republican Governors Kowtowing to Trump

Jay Inslee wants governors races to become the rallying cry for the resistance to President Donald Trump.

“It’s a great awakening that we have to fight on a state-by-state basis,” the Washington governor and chair of the Democratic Governors Association said in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast.

Democrats are tracking Republican gubernatorial primaries, where, in most states, candidates—even in Nevada, Michigan, Florida and Tennessee, where Trump’s backing of one candidate is already public—are still elbowing each other to out-Trump each other.

The strategy isn’t anything like that of many House Republicans, who are already trying to create distance from the president.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/06/jay-inslee-washington-governor-off-message-217233