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applegrove

(118,595 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 05:44 PM Apr 2020

Republican leaders furious with Trump for blowing up their key campaign talking point before the 202

Republican leaders furious with Trump for blowing up their key campaign talking point before the 2020 election: report

April 18, 2020

By Tom Boggioni at Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/republican-leaders-furious-with-trump-for-blowing-up-their-key-campaign-talking-point-before-the-2020-election-report/

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According to a report from the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin, a key talking point that the Republican Party — as well as embattled GOP candidates seeking to hold into their seats — hoped to use this election season is being taken away from them because of Donald Trump’s flip-flopping.

At issue were plans by the Republican Party to make China a central issue as the 2020 election heated up, blaming one of the United States’ largest trading partner for the coronavirus pandemic — while also linking the country to former Vice President Joe Biden who is expected to the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.

According to the report, the GOP is having to retool their plans because of the president’s unreliability and inability to “stay on message.”

“The strategy could not be clearer: From the Republican lawmakers blanketing Fox News to new ads from President Trump’s super PAC to the biting criticism on Donald Trump Jr.’s Twitter feed, the G.O.P. is attempting to divert attention from the administration’s heavily criticized response to the coronavirus by pinning the blame on China,” the report begins. “Republican senators locked in difficult races are preparing commercials condemning China. Conservatives with future presidential ambitions of their own, like Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, are competing to see who can talk tougher toward the country where the virus first emerged. Party officials are publicly and privately brandishing polling data in hopes Mr. Trump will confront Beijing.”

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Republican leaders furious with Trump for blowing up their key campaign talking point before the 202 (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2020 OP
Trump won't endanger his Chinese trademarks TeamPooka Apr 2020 #1
Well sure the new people to blame are the Democrats... Thomas Hurt Apr 2020 #2
They hold how much of our debt? nt Phoenix61 Apr 2020 #3
Trump is his own worst enemy..........and that plays right into our hands. CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2020 #4
How is that exactly, Peggy? SlimJimmy Apr 2020 #9
He messed up GOP election plans by being inconsistant and pulling grievances applegrove Apr 2020 #10
But the OP was about China. SlimJimmy Apr 2020 #13
He went with ginning up his base in ways that could kill and applegrove Apr 2020 #14
I thought it was going to be "The Economy" bc Cha Apr 2020 #5
#BeijingBiden ad buys were in the millions starting this weekend in some swing states underpants Apr 2020 #6
Biden preemptively killed the Biden/China attack using the orange anus' own words Brother Buzz Apr 2020 #11
They are still flooding the markets with them. underpants Apr 2020 #12
And this surprised them? tanyev Apr 2020 #7
The GOP best tread lightly with China. KY_EnviroGuy Apr 2020 #8

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. Well sure the new people to blame are the Democrats...
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 05:47 PM
Apr 2020

they made King Cockwomble commit socialism and restrict the freedums of Muricans.

Made him put his signature on those checks.

SlimJimmy

(3,180 posts)
9. How is that exactly, Peggy?
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:29 PM
Apr 2020

His stance against China over the last three years has been pretty even. What has changed?

applegrove

(118,595 posts)
10. He messed up GOP election plans by being inconsistant and pulling grievances
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:42 PM
Apr 2020

out of his *** and then acting on them.

SlimJimmy

(3,180 posts)
13. But the OP was about China.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 10:58 PM
Apr 2020

I don't see him changing much on that. How will this impact Orange Man in November?

applegrove

(118,595 posts)
14. He went with ginning up his base in ways that could kill and
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 11:00 PM
Apr 2020

innocents with COVID-19 with his Liberate tweets. That is the point. It is not a well thought through strategy to liberate people from liviing as Trump was doing with his liberate campaign, also to bankrupt Liberal governors which would directly attack the obama-obama-trump voters and their wellbeing. I think labelling Biden as pro communist is just reusing the anti socialist campaign they had planned to run against Bernie. They got nothing. I wonder if not enabling testing is so there will be no narrative of who and when COVID-19 spreads when it spreads again because contact tracing will tell a detailed story if it had the funding.

Cha

(297,100 posts)
5. I thought it was going to be "The Economy" bc
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 05:54 PM
Apr 2020

trump Blew that Up with his ignoring the CV for 70 days while he played golf, staged rallies and blamed it on a "democrat hoax"..

underpants

(182,736 posts)
6. #BeijingBiden ad buys were in the millions starting this weekend in some swing states
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 05:58 PM
Apr 2020

Read about it earlier. Wisconsin PA Michigan. This was their super special polished turd.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)
8. The GOP best tread lightly with China.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:10 PM
Apr 2020

As the old saying goes "paybacks are hell" and China has been known to be quite masterful with the "silent" mass payback.

I suspect they're already treading on thin ice.


KY..........

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