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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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