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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpeaker Pelosi is aggressively ramping up attacks on Mitch McConnell as part of her 2020 strategy
https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/speaker-pelosi-is-aggressively-ramping-up-attacks-on-mitch-mcconnell-as-part-of-her-2020-strategy-report/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1469snip of article:
Next to electing a Democratic president, the Democratic National Committees top goal for 2020 is achieving a majority in the U.S. Senate which would require flipping four Republican-held seats while keeping every seat they are defending. And journalist Alayna Treene, in a report for Axios, stresses that a key part of House Speaker Nancy Pelosis 2020 election strategy will be aggressively ramping up attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a.k.a. Moscow Mitch.
Pelosi, according to Axios sources, doesnt believe that attacking President Donald Trump is enough for Democrats they need to be focusing heavily on anti-McConnell messaging as well. A Democratic aide, quoted anonymously, told Axios that vilifying McConnell is something even the more moderate Democrats can glom onto because hes seen as the face of obstruction and Trumps enabler in the Senate. Its easy to message against him.
Get him Speaker.
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Speaker Pelosi is aggressively ramping up attacks on Mitch McConnell as part of her 2020 strategy (Original Post)
bdamomma
Sep 2019
OP
She's right...a Democratic president WITH "Senate Majority Leader Moscow Mitch" is...
Miles Archer
Sep 2019
#2
Will be interesting to see the GOP spins how Moscow Mitch being Putin's Bitch is a good thing. nt
cstanleytech
Sep 2019
#8
trof
(54,256 posts)1. Gut him Speaker.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)2. She's right...a Democratic president WITH "Senate Majority Leader Moscow Mitch" is...
...just four years of headaches of a different flavor.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)3. Excellent
spanone
(135,795 posts)4. Go Madame Speaker!!!!!
TheFarseer
(9,317 posts)5. This is good strategy
Go after him on everything including his massive mind- blowing corruption
KPN
(15,637 posts)6. Yay. At the same time, I would think going
after McConnell as well is an obvious. Hes a ripe and critical target. Glad that as a whole, our party recognized and is emphasizing this.
beastie boy
(9,236 posts)7. Just one more piece of evidence that Nancy is playing chess, not checkers.
Impeachment is not her only concern. She is also working on getting the Senate back and taking greater control of the House, and she is coordinating all three. She may seem too slow for some in moving some of her chess pieces, but she is very deliberate and long-ranging. To continue with a chess metaphor, the end goal is not a check, it's a check mate.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)10. -1
cstanleytech
(26,236 posts)8. Will be interesting to see the GOP spins how Moscow Mitch being Putin's Bitch is a good thing. nt
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)9. Do we have 2020 election protection ?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)11. He seems scared
Link to tweet
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,257 posts)12. it's time to Ditch rich Moscow Mitch!
Wouldn't hurt to take Comrade Chao out with him.