Scratching their heads after losing another congressional race in Georgia’s sixth district, the anti-Trump media thought they had this one in the bag, spending the last six months since the election trashing the new president. Accusing President Donald Trump of colluding with the Russians and obstructing justice firing FBI Director James Comey May 9, Democrats exposed a one dimensional strategy, repeating the same mistake as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton’s campaign offered no vision of the future only blasting Trump as a Russia “puppet,” an erratic candidate unfit for the Oval Office. Democrats and their minions in the liberal press followed the exact same polls that showed Hillary beating Trump by a landslide on Election Day. Liberal newspapers and broadcast outlets cite the same polls to publicize Trump’s low approval ratings.
Convinced they’d turn the tide in Georgia’s sixth district pouring $30 million down a rat hole, convinced that all of Trump’s bad publicity, especially with talking heads hyping the Russian investigation 24/7 would put Democrat Jon Ossoff over the top. When the dust settled, Republican Karen Handel cruised to victory 59.9% to 48.1%. Democrat were already pounding their chests before Ossoff conceded to Handel yesterday, raising questions about next year’s midterm election. “We’ve been hyper-confused for the past five years,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Ct.) on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. No fans of Trump, Joe and Mikka hoped Ossoff would pull it off, realizing that something went wrong. Murphy wants Democrats to offer a coherent economic message, something Hillary failed to do in the 2016 race.
Handel reminded Georgia’s sixth district voters that if they voted for Ossoff they’d return Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) back to House Speaker. Democrats have allowed Pelosi to hold press conferences denouncing Trump, calling for his impeachment. Whether Democrats admit it or not, their anti-Trump strategy through the broadcast and print press has backfired, spending too much time hyping the Russian investigation. “We need to be hyper-focused on this issue of wage growth and job growth—I think Democrats are scared of this message because it’s what Republicans have been talking about,” said Murphy, groping to find any message for Democrats going forward. Losing in Georgia’s sixth district, a moderate Atlanta suburb, shows that nothing’s really changed since Nov. 8, 2016. Democrats preach to the same choir in the liberal press.
Pelosi’s control of House Democrats presents problems going forward, since independents or center-leaning Democrats find her politics too radical. Letting the Democratic Party fall into the hands of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) or Sen. Elizabeth Warrern (D-Ma.) also turns off independents and moderate-leaning Democrats. Democrats put all their eggs in the anti-Trump basket, leaving them, like Hillary, without any coherent economic or foreign policy message. “Close is only good in horse shoes. A loss is a loss . . . We can’t just dismiss it. We need to review it together,” said Rep. Bill Parscrell (D-N.J.). Those sentiments were echoed by Sen. Corey Booker (D-N.J.) who said May 28, “He’s not going to rush to impeachment.” Booker meant the Democrats look too fixated on ripping Trump, showing no domestic or foreign policy program of their own.
Democrats and their friends in the press like to tout Trump’s low approval ratings, citing the same polls that predicted Hillary would win by a landslide Nov. 8, 2016. When a Rasmussen poll shows Trump with 50% approval rating, the liberal press spins it to look like his numbers dropped. If Trump’s approval ratings were really that low and spreading to other GOP candidates, Ossoff would have cruised to victory as Democrats predicted. Spending all their time ripping Trump for alleged mischief in the 2016 election, Democrats failed to develop any coherent message, other than Trump’s corrupt. “We have to figure out how we are going to speak to people’s economic anxiety,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-.Calif.) told NBC News. “We have failed to do that. Our politics are still conventional, incremental, are not very different, frankly from our proposals from 10 years ago,” said Khanna.
Democrats want to dismiss the Georgia loss as an aberration in a primarily red state district. Insisting the “House is in play” in 2016, House Congressional Campaign Chairman Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), continues to blow smoke, refusing to take a hard look at Democrats’ strategy. Putting all their eggs into the anti-Trump basket, Democrats haven’t learned from past mistakes, following Hillary’s lead in only ripping Trump. If and when Special Counsel Robert Mueller finds nothing criminal in Trump’s Russian investigation, Democrats will have a far bigger problem on their hands, no longer hiding behind today’s wild speculation of criminal wrongdoing. “Democrats will not win back power merely by serving as an alternative to Trump and Republicans,” said Anna Galland, executive director of liberal MoveOn.org, warning Democrats about their lack of a message.
