{"id":36889,"date":"2019-06-25T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36889"},"modified":"2019-06-25T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:58:29","slug":"run-against-bought-bitch-mitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/run-against-bought-bitch-mitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Against Bought Bitch Mitch!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The author of my source article recommends a tactic for Democratic 2020 candidates, and I think I agree.  S<\/font>enate candidates, especially, should not run against Trump.  They should run against the only major politician, who is even more hated than Trump is.  And who might that be?  Who else!  Run against Bought Bitch Mitch!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arguably was everything President Donald Trump stood for politically long before Trump was even taken seriously as a presidential candidate<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Gallons<\/a> of ink<\/a> have been spilled<\/a> about how he is a worse threat to democratic institutions than Trump.<\/strong> He has blocked any and all progressive reform, engineered a right-wing takeover of the federal courts, rewrote Senate rules to enforce GOP ideology, and did all in his power to undermine campaign finance and corruption laws. In the historical record, he is probably matched in his power and anti-democratic tendencies only by Joseph Gurney Cannon<\/a>, the early 20th century House speaker who essentially ruled Congress with an iron fist. <\/p>\n

McConnell is also one of the most toxic and despised politicians in America \u2014 even more than Trump<\/strong>. And some Democratic strategists now believe the key to winning in 2020 is to make the election a referendum on him. <\/p>\n

According<\/a> to the Huffington Post, a poll conducted by End Citizens United across 10 battleground states showed that anti-McConnell messaging is more effective than anti-Trump messaging<\/strong>. Democrats started with a 3-point advantage on the generic ballot, but among voters who were exposed to messaging about McConnell, it grew to a 12-point advantage. Trump messaging only generated a 6-point advantage…. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Raw Story<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Let me start with the caveat that running against any representative of the evils of the Republican Reich will not put Democratic butts in elected seats, unless it is secondary to  this.  Democratic candidates must also demonstrate to voters how Democratic policies will make voters’ lives better.<\/font><\/p>\n

That said, every Democrat running for the Senate should paint their Republican opponent with this image.<\/font><\/p>\n

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RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The author of my source article recommends a tactic for Democratic 2020 candidates, and I think I agree.  Senate candidates, especially, should not run against Trump.  They should run against the only major politician, who is even more hated than Trump is.  And who might that be?  Who else!  Run against Bought Bitch Mitch! Senate […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}