Posted on 04/04/2018 9:59:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Before last month’s special congressional election in Pennsylvania, U.S. President Donald Trump, who ridiculed his rivals in the 2016 election as “Liddle Marco,” “Lyin’ Ted,” and “Crooked Hillary,” tried it again, tagging Democratic candidate Conor Lamb as “Lamb the Sham.”
This time, the tactic failed.
But it illustrated a penchant for often brutally effective nicknames that Democrats are bracing for Trump to employ when he campaigns for Republicans in November’s congressional elections.
All 435 members of the House and a third of the 100-member Senate will be up for grabs. A Democratic takeover of one or both chambers could derail much of the Republican president’s policy agenda.
While acknowledging that the tabloid-style strategic branding may have worked for Trump in the presidential election, Democrats insist they will not be baited into fighting back with name-calling of their own.
“I don’t think that we should ever do stuff like that,” Representative Keith Ellison, deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told Reuters.
Ellison is all too familiar with Trump’s scorched-earth shorthand. In 2016, he was an early and fervent supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, or “Crazy Bernie,” as Trump called him. “When they go low, we should go high,” Ellison said in a comment echoed by other Democrats.
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The Democrats will only take the House if the Bush League Republicans can throw enough races.
It’s unlikely they can throw the Senate because of the number of Democrat seats that are up this time.
LOL. That’s a battle that they’re going to lose. Trump lives rent-free 24/7 in their heads.
Are we going to hear a jerk senator talk about “President Bone Spurs”?
Which is a great strategy...if in fact they can keep from being baited by Trump's name calling. It obviously got to Rubio and Bush and Cruz and Clinton and Warren. It may get to other candidates as well.
They can’t help themselves. It is an automatic reaction. They cannot take their eyes off the silks and fluttering doves emanating from his left hand. That is why they never see the stuff his right hand is doing.
Pop go the Progressives.
Democrats “vow” not to be baited...
So, they took a solemn oath? Seriously, who writes these headlines?
They always telegraph their punches. Watch for the solid stream of invective from them and their media shills. Worse than now, I mean.
Name calling, or accurate descriptions?
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer. What a surprise, some PR for the Demagogic Party, penned by lifelong lefty media shills.
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