Pirate's Cove

Might be a little to late to reconsider what their messaging is

Dems warn party message lacks punch

Democrats are sounding growing alarms in the final push before the midterm elections that the party lacks the message it needs to combat President Trump and win back Democratic majorities in Congress.

Some of the comments are positively biting, and illustrate that nerves are on edge less than two weeks before Election Day.

They also hint at the fights that will take place if Democrats under-perform and fail to at least win back the House majority, which would count as a significant disappointment at this stage.

“We haven’t had a real message since the last presidential election so why change it now?” said Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis. “We had no message in 2016. We had no message in between. We have no message going into this election…You have to give people a reason to vote for you, not a reason to vote against someone else.”

Democrats think they have a good chance of retaking the House majority despite these problems given the fact that their voting base is fired up to send a message to Trump.

Polls have tightened, however, and there is a recognition that Trump has started to fire up his own base. The narrow path the Democrats once saw for a Senate majority has largely disappeared.

“In terms of a Democratic Party having even a semblance of a message, it’s just not there and that’s the reason this election is going to be unpredictable,” said Kofinis. “Nobody should be surprised if it’s a good night or a bad night.”

The main focus for Democrats is that they Hate Trump. Besides what’s in the graphic above, we can add make sure there are zero restrictions on abortion on demand as well as implement measures that make citizens more reliant on Government, such as through carbon taxes and Single Payer health care/insurance. Does it resonate positively when they reflexively take the side of MS-13 when President Trump denounces them?

Democratic leaders are quick to reject the notion that their message lacks the bite to resonate with voters. Discarding a focus on the president — a focus thought to have backfired in 2016 —their “For the People” agenda features just three broad promises: lowering health care costs, boosting wages and fighting government corruption. It’s those issues, they contend, that voters care most about.

“People ask what are the Democrats for? We are for the people, for lowering their healthcare costs by reducing the cost of prescription drugs. We are for bigger paychecks by building infrastructure of America and we are for better government by reducing the role of money in politics,” Pelosi said Monday.

It’s a cute slogan, but, other than pimping Single Payer, what they usually refer to as Medicaid For All, do you ever hear Democrats talking about this stuff?

Yet Democrats are not all on the same page when it comes to the election-year approach to the president. Ignoring Trump, they argue, is to ignore the elephant in the room.

“There’s one issue in this election: Donald Trump. That is it,” Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) told The Hill recently. “And this election is about whether the country is going to vote for a mid-course correction.”

He’s about the only honest one, because that’s all Democrats care about: their Trump Derangement Syndrome. Doing things like rolling back the economic progress made under Trump and so much more.