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How to counter Trump? Democrats still searching
WTOP-TV ^ | October 21, 2017 | Bill Barrow, The Associated Press

Posted on 10/21/2017 10:34:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nine months into the Donald Trump era, Democrats are still searching for a standard-bearer and a crisp message to corral widespread opposition to an unpopular president and a Republican-led Congress.

The minority party has put that struggle on vivid display this week in Nevada, site of Democrats’ first national party gathering since a contentious chairman’s election in February. The party’s congressional leaders and potential presidential candidates mostly stayed away, with the exception of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, whose name has surfaced among possible 2020 hopefuls.

The activists and party leaders who did attend expressed optimism over their rebuilding efforts, but also lingering resentments from the 2016 presidential primary, confirming that the battle between liberals and establishment Democrats continues long after Hillary Clinton dispatched Bernie Sanders but lost to Trump....

(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...


TOPICS: Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: democrats; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ‘Rats would actually have to work on making America Greater Again.


21 posted on 10/21/2017 11:38:30 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

““We are not a leaderless party. We are a leader-full party. We have Tom Perez. We have Keith Ellison. We have Leader Pelosi. We have Leader Schumer,” he said.”

one and all beloved by the vast majority of the working class of our great nation ... and all of whom would make fantastic Presidential candidates ...


22 posted on 10/21/2017 11:39:37 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Trump’s approval ratings are mired in the 30s, “

yet another lie: rasmussen has trump approval at 43% today.

still, it’s a very useful lie (for our side) because it paints a completely false picture of reality that the left believes in and will thereby fail in accordingly.


23 posted on 10/21/2017 11:43:04 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Trump’s election has sparked an outpouring of volunteer energy and cash on the political left, but the money hasn’t flowed to the national party.”

really? where exactly then did all of that supposed “outpouring” of money and energy go to?


24 posted on 10/21/2017 11:44:21 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

If you look at the actual numbers from the primary it’s not even that close!


25 posted on 10/21/2017 11:44:32 AM PDT by Nateman (Cruz haters piss me off! How about concentrating your fire on the bad guys, like the left?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The party’s “Better Deal” rollout earlier this year — a package of proposals intended to serve as the economic message to counter Trump’s populist nationalism — hasn’t been an obvious feature at Democrats’ national meeting at all.”

uh, yeah. i believe it completely evaporated in less than a week. lame, hollow platitudes tend to do that ...


26 posted on 10/21/2017 11:45:36 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Reminds of the Wellstone funeral. They yelled We Will Win We Will Win! (with Mondale no less) They lost. :)


27 posted on 10/21/2017 11:47:10 AM PDT by xp38
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To: catnipman
hollow platitudes tend to do that ...

Yeah - or so I heard from the Coffee Party...

28 posted on 10/21/2017 11:48:19 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They need a candidate with a little mustache and a goatee to stand up there and raise his fist in the air proclaiming, “Workers of America! Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” That will rouse the people!


29 posted on 10/21/2017 11:57:10 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The face of the Demo party is:
Hillary!
Maxine Waters
Frederica Wilson-Soldier (and her weird, outfit matching cowboy hats).

Am I in another dimension? How did I get here?


30 posted on 10/21/2017 11:58:43 AM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: catnipman

The Russia thing was put together with everyone knowing it was all fake. The left really believed that a case could be invented completely and the Congress would impeach and remove. Actually it could work that way but they have to get the cooperation of too many people to make it happen. They have to get the Republicans actually on board, much more than just smiling from the sidelines. There are only half a dozen in the Congress that will pro actively go along. The rest say well if you can do we’re on board with you after it’s done. They are globalists and functional leftists who want to see it happen but they are also cowards and are not sure the wind is blowing the right way for it.


31 posted on 10/21/2017 12:05:40 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is smarter than everyone of those America-hating lefties put together. He’s running rings around those clowns.


32 posted on 10/21/2017 12:34:58 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Has Sheila JACKSON LEE changed her name yet?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They all need to get themselves one of those sparkly cowboy hats and become “rock stars”.


33 posted on 10/21/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Has Sheila JACKSON LEE changed her name yet?)
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To: ichabod1

Yep. It’s almost like we can pinpoint the start of “the revolution “. It all goes back to democrats. But they’ve stepped over the line and now they are just looked at as crazy. They don’t see it. Never will. The only thing they will ever acknowledge is maybe they need to call all white folks racist. That’ll bring back their voters fee sure.


34 posted on 10/21/2017 12:56:21 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: arthurus

And Donald is laughing at them every time it comes up. They are so dug in to their “Russian thing” that they cannot see that it is they who have a Russia problem.

Not that sessions is gonna look into it....ahole


35 posted on 10/21/2017 12:59:33 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You mean to tell me that unfocused, childish rage isn’t working? Shocked.


36 posted on 10/21/2017 1:00:12 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: catnipman

They’ve Russia’d themselves into a bad bad place. Hopefully sessions can help them out.


37 posted on 10/21/2017 1:01:42 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: catnipman

Oh oh....Nancy P. Please nominate Nancy.


38 posted on 10/21/2017 1:13:14 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: catnipman
where exactly then did all of that supposed “outpouring” of money and energy go to?

Funding protests and destruction of numerous cities and campuses?

39 posted on 10/21/2017 1:16:02 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: gbaker

The Left lives in fantasy land. That just doesn’t work over time because it always fails to deliver what was promised but the Democrats are mentally incapable of giving it up because their Ideology has become a religion to them.


40 posted on 10/21/2017 2:03:50 PM PDT by Bayan
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