As Democrats Analyze Disastrous 2020 House Results, Three Words Could Keep Haunting Them
Matt Vespa
Posted: May 21, 2021 6:00 AM
It keeps coming back to the surface. It’s something that pushed black and Hispanic voters to Republicans in 2020. It’s something that was dug up again during the 2020 autopsy. What the hell happened? DC should have a resounding Democratic majority government. Both Houses should be partying like it’s 2009 when Obama was ushered in with an unprecedented 60 seats in the Senate and a solid majority in the House. That didn’t happen. The Senate is a 50-50 split, with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) or Joe Manchin (D-WV) not gung-ho about going ‘woke’ on the agenda. In the House, Nancy Pelosi is barely hanging onto the majority. The Democrats only have a four-seat majority. There’s not a lot of wiggle room to get cute or take cockamamie progressive ideas for a spin. They’ll try when they can of course, but what happened. Well, three words keep popping up that could continue to haunt Democrats if they don’t get a hold of the fact that being pro-crime isn’t a smart strategy.
Those words are ‘defund the police’ (via WaPo):
For the second time in four years, Rep. Sean Maloney (D-N.Y.) drew one of the toughest assignments: investigating what went wrong in a disappointing election.
The 2017 after-action review followed even more devastating results: a clean GOP sweep of holding the House while Donald Trump won the presidency and Republicans retained the Senate.
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Maloney, the new chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, worked with senior staff to analyze 600 polls in House races last year, matched up against voter files from the November elections, and other state and local data.
Maloney laid out how Democrats simply underestimated the number of hardcore Trump voters and, with more Trump voters in the voting booths, the Republican attacks against the “defund the police” movement proved more potent than Democrats ever anticipated.
“The lies and distortions about defund and socialism carried a punch, but the Republicans think it got them over a 10-foot wall, when Trump’s turnout gave them a seven-foot ladder,” Maloney said in 45-minute interview, exclusively outlining what he calls the “Deep Dive” into the election.
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/05/21/as-house-democrats-lick-their-wounds-over-2020-they-found-one-area-they-might-not-be-able-to-fix-n2589809
