(September 11, 2018 at 2:42 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Regardless of the merits or demerits of the odious 'Pocahantas thing' Trump's base laps it up when ever he employs it. Of course the Dems on Warren's side are already convinced the charge is specious. Trump's crew ISN'T, and THEY are the ones needing dissuasion of the notion.
Warren failed, IMO, to nuke the issue early on, either via the profoundly cheap 23 and Me expediency, or acknowledging her error, regardless of how she fell into it, so as to take it off the campaign talking points list of the other side.
Do you honestly believe the right would stop using it if she acknowledged her error? No, they'd double down. Heck, even if she is part native, and the test came back positive, they would in all likelihood cry "fake news" and keep going on about it. Where have you been the past 2 years? Truth doesn't matter to these people, winning by any means necessary matters to them. Trump literally just made up a quote from Obama and used it at a rally. He'll do the same thing with any Democratic candidate he faces in 2020.
Dems should focus on the issues that matter to voters.
Quote:And for folks feeling Trump supporters are beyond redemption/reason, I'm certainly not seeing that around here. At the rural level, Trump placards and signs left up prominenetly after the election are gone, you'd have to really hunt to find a confederate flag anywhere, and even local watering holes are seeing an absence of Trump diehards still spouting off. The inevitability of either a self inflicted presidential disaster, or impeachment, resignation and/or declining to run for re-election is dawning on many now. Trump could claim in the run up to 2020 he has accomplished all he wanted in his first term and endorse Pence, and that would be that. Nice escape hatch, a 'peace with honor' ploy we've seen before, but would still work.
I'm not sure you can rely on yard signs at this point in a term. He's certainly lost support, but his core remains because he's doing everything to appease them. Unfortunately we won't know exactly how much support he's lost until the 2020 election is over.
