Inside the mission to blow up the 2020 Democratic field
The effort to dig up dirt on Donald Trump’s potential opponent is well underway.
By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO
07/23/2018 05:02 AM EDT
Opposition research books are already being assembled. Political detectives are scouring archives, public records, real-time video and decades of old footage.
America Rising PAC, which at the time of its founding five years ago focused exclusively on researching, tracking and deploying rapid-response against Hillary Clinton, is well into a beneath-the-radar effort to define — and ultimately derail — the Democrats preparing to take on President Donald Trump in 2020.
The oppo-research carpet-bombing has commenced against Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, among others: America Rising was responsible for spotting and blasting out a video of Warren telling an audience she wants to “cut open†the bodies of Republicans to see if they have hearts, generating a spate of 2017 stories.
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