Trump Can’t Stop Attacking Biden. G.O.P. Strategists Wish He Would.

WASHINGTON — As President Trump has struggled to explain the difficulty of negotiating a trade agreement with China, he has embraced a side argument: A Democratic president would only agree to a worse deal.

But not just any Democratic president.

“China is DREAMING that Sleepy Joe Biden, or any of the others, gets elected in 2020,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday. “They LOVE ripping off America!”

View the complete May 14 article by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman on The New York Times website here.

GOP strategists admit their party ‘just can’t be saved’ in midterms

The following article by Eric Boehlert was posted on the ShareBlue.com website April 19, 2018:

Several veteran Republicans don’t have much faith for the upcoming midterms, fearing ‘the smoking rubble of a 40- to 50-seat pounding.’

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With lots of Republican House incumbents getting buried by their opponents in fundraising, more and more Republican strategists are denouncing their party’s prospects for the upcoming midterms, and acknowledging they may be facing the worst possible outcomes.

“Thanks to a map that puts more Democratic than Republican seats at risk, our party will still cling to control of the Senate, but GOP House members lack insulation: They will crawl out from the smoking rubble of a 40- to 50-seat pounding to find they have lost their majority,” writes longtime GOP operative Alex Castellanos. Continue reading “GOP strategists admit their party ‘just can’t be saved’ in midterms”