Paging Rahm: House Dems revive 2006 playbook for 2018
The party is reviving the strategy it used the last time it took the House 11 years ago, but a lot has changed since then.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti
05/22/2017 05:11 AM EDT
An unpopular president, the scent of corruption in Washington, a riled-up liberal base — to House Democrats, 2018 is already looking like 2006 on overdrive.
Now, Democrats see the same ugly storm forming for Republicans that delivered them the majority 11 years ago, and they’re digging out the blueprint.
The party is vastly expanding the number of districts it plans to contest, recruiting veterans and business owners to compete in conservative terrain as it did back then. Three senior House Democrats are soon heading to Chicago to seek advice from Rahm Emanuel, the party’s 2006 master strategist. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been tutoring members on the party’s campaign efforts that year.
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