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House Republicans Adopt Trumps Playbook
July 17, 2019 at 11:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 61 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/17/house-republicans-adopt-trumps-playbook/
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The NRCC, with the blessing of House Republican leaders, has adopted a no-holds-barred strategy to win back the House majority next year, borrowing heavily from President Trumps playbook in deploying such taunts and name-calling, the New York Times reports.
The offensive hinges largely on the relatively facile notion that by tagging all House Democrats as socialists, anti-Semites or far-left extremists, they will be able to alienate swing-state voters. On Tuesday night, after the House voted to condemn as racist President Trumps attacks on four congresswoman, the campaign arms communications team deluged reporters inboxes with message after message calling vulnerable Democratic lawmakers deranged.'
Their tactics have discomforted some Republicans and highlighted the struggle in the party over how much to lean into the tenor of politics forged by their leader.
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bitterross
(4,066 posts)Aren't we all a bit tired of Trumpian behavior?
louis-t
(23,309 posts)It's making me sick.
trev
(1,480 posts)to defuse those attacks.