Texas Republican Party's 2020 election strategy document lands in Democrats' hands
Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/11/2
AUSTIN -- In a bizarre political blunder, a document laying out the Republican Party of Texas’s election strategy for the 2020 elections has ended up in the hands of Texas Democrats. Attacking Democratic candidates through websites and mitigating “the polarizing nature” of President Donald Trump are part of the plan.
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The document — called a draft for initial discussion by the Texas GOP Party chair — was titled “Primary/General Election 2020 [Draft]” and began showing up in Democratic emails Monday evening.
It includes a target list of 12 statehouse districts, including six in North Texas, that Republicans are aiming to take back in next year’s elections. Negative attacks through websites, and highlighting diverse Republicans to counter a “narrative driven by Democrats” about the GOP’s lack of diversity are also part of the strategy.
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“Starting after the Primary, the RPT will generate microsites for negative hits against the Democrat candidates in our twelve target race—we expect each microsite to be roughly $500,” the document reads. “We will then begin rolling out these websites, prioritizing the races that were within 4% in the 2018 election.”
Read more: Dallas Morning News
On it, four House Districts in central Texas are listed as targets for Republicans to flip back to GOP control.
Plans also include buying domain names for some of the Democratic candidates, and making sure when people try to search for them online, it redirects them to sites with Republican messaging.
Additionally, the document says the GOP will set up negative attack websites to pop up on the front pages of search engines.
According to a press release from Texas Democrats, the plan was mistakenly emailed out and leaked to freshman House members.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/texas-gop-2020-strategy-accidentally-sent-out-to-democrats/
Are they really this incompetent? I'd say it was a ruse, but the talking points (twice) leaked about their impeachment strategy were true to form.
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