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Democrats Advised Not to Speak About Unpopular Open Borders Policies (tr)
Breitbart ^ | October 14, 2018 | John Binder

Posted on 10/15/2018 8:16:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode

Democrats running for re-election in the 2018 midterms are being advised to not speak about the issue of immigration as consultants admit the zero-enforcement, open borders positions of the Democrat Party are unpopular with swing voters.

In a memo obtained by the New York Times, left-wing consultants with the Center for American Progress and the think tank, Third Way, advised Democrats running for election to spend “as little time as possible” talking about the immigration issue facing the nation, where more than 1.5 million immigrants are admitted to the country every year.

The New York Times reported:

“Sanctuary attacks pack a punch,” says a four-page memorandum, prepared by the liberal Center for American Progress and the centrist think tank Third Way, that has been shared at about a dozen briefings for Democrats in recent weeks. The New York Times obtained a copy of the memo, whose findings are based on interviews and surveys conducted over the summer. [Emphasis added]

Democrats, the strategists who prepared the memo advised, could neutralize the attacks if they responded head-on. But they should spend “as little time as possible” talking about immigration itself, and instead pivot to more fruitful issues for Democrats like health care and taxation. [Emphasis added]

“It is very difficult to win on immigration with vulnerable voters in the states Trump carried in 2016,” the strategy memo said, arguing that “even the most draconian of Republican policies,” such as family separation and threats to deport the Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — failed to sway most of them. [Emphasis added]

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The Democrats think people will forget their calls to abolish ice and open the borders?
1 posted on 10/15/2018 8:16:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

The GOP should run ads showing stick men and women and children FLOODING over the border

And then how they fan out into Dim cities


2 posted on 10/15/2018 8:21:17 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" Are the CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: EdnaMode

If it were not for Trump this would not even matter.

Previously it was Republicans who did not want to talk about immigration during campaigns.


3 posted on 10/15/2018 8:21:41 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EdnaMode

That’s how stealth Democrats like Conor Lamb get elected. They just shut-up about any of that party’s insanely unpopular positions and pretend to be just another average Joe.


4 posted on 10/15/2018 8:22:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EdnaMode

The propagandist media has a lot of ptopag


5 posted on 10/15/2018 8:22:52 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: EdnaMode

The propagandist media has a lot of ptopagandi


6 posted on 10/15/2018 8:23:08 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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Hugin in NJ supports a pathway to citizenship, so he can’t attack Menendez.


7 posted on 10/15/2018 8:23:48 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: EdnaMode

This should be challenged in very opportunity. Problem is that Republicans won’t because most in DC agree with Democrats, not with the American people.


8 posted on 10/15/2018 8:24:00 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: EdnaMode

The propagandist media has a lot of ptopagandising to do.


9 posted on 10/15/2018 8:24:19 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: TakebackGOP

In other words, they are told to lie out of their butts just to get elected.... party over country lifts it’s ugly head once again.


10 posted on 10/15/2018 8:25:12 AM PDT by Meadow Muffin
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To: EdnaMode

Sorry,I need a new phone!


11 posted on 10/15/2018 8:25:40 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: EdnaMode

The only way the Dems win any election is to outright lie or just be silent about what they will actually do.


12 posted on 10/15/2018 8:27:01 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: EdnaMode
Democrats Advised Not to Speak To Lie By Omission About Unpopular Open Borders Policies: ‘It Is Very Difficult to Win on Immigration’

There, ... a more accurate headline consistent with DemoRat Policy.

13 posted on 10/15/2018 8:27:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: EdnaMode

The GOPe is just as complicit in open border fiasco.


14 posted on 10/15/2018 8:27:58 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: EdnaMode

Unfortunately.....a lot of people don’t know what the Dims say or do,,,,,,,,,,


15 posted on 10/15/2018 8:37:28 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Navy Patriot

Yup


16 posted on 10/15/2018 8:37:52 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Trump is tying them to their extremist views and he hits on them as the party of high taxes, excessive regulations and crime.

He’s framing them and they have no answer except to duck and run. They can hardly say they’re not going to do it should they get back in power.


17 posted on 10/15/2018 8:37:57 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: EdnaMode

Trump is tying them to their extremist views and he hits on them as the party of high taxes, excessive regulations and crime.

He’s framing them and they have no answer except to duck and run. They can hardly say they’re not going to do it should they get back in power.


18 posted on 10/15/2018 8:38:00 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Meadow Muffin

In other words, they are told to lie out of their butts just to get elected....
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Same as the Bush League Republicans.


19 posted on 10/15/2018 8:40:15 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EdnaMode

I gauarantee that the Democrats are organizing the newest illegal alien caravan that is timed to be on the border in time for the week before the elections. Be prepared for some fake video of horrible treatment at the hands of the rascal Republicans.


20 posted on 10/15/2018 8:40:38 AM PDT by richardtavor
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