Dems Give Up on Trying to Get Cable News to Care About Anything but Russia

[DonViejo]

The party wants to talk health care. They really do. But they can’t get cable bookers or programmers to care.

GIDEON RESNICK
SAM STEIN
05.14.18 4:37 AM ET

Throughout the spring and early summer of 2017, congressional Democrats put together a comprehensive legislative and messaging plan to serve as the party’s foundation for the 2018 midterm elections.

It centered around running against the concentration of economic power—chiefly within the pharmaceutical industry—and an ambitious, multi-faceted approach to enhancing conditions for workers both within and outside the workplace.

The title was a bit cookie-cutter—”A Better Deal”—but the document was the result of numerous stakeholder meetings, strategy sessions, and late-night conferring.

Naturally, the party wanted to have a flashy debut. So lawmakers went to Berryville, Virginia—a town in a district that Democrats had lost in the 2016 elections but were poised to flip in the upcoming cycle—to formally announce the plan. When they came back to D.C, they conducted additional press briefings in hopes of flooding the news cycle.

And then Jared Kushner stepped out of the West Wing to a horde of cameras, to proclaim his innocence in the still nascent probe into Russian election meddling. “Let me be very clear,” Kushner said. “I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else on the campaign who did so.”

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[manor321]

1. Massive story

It's easy to understand why this is happening. We get weekly, and sometimes daily bombshells of tremendous historical importance on the Russia story. It will be the defining story of this era, like Watergate was.