Why Is the Trump Campaign Attacking Senator Kirsten Gillibrand?
Late last month, Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, wrote a tweet knocking Kirsten Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York. She had recently become the first senator to join a call for abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency; Parscale pulled up an old copy of her Web site, from a decade ago, in which she called for “stopping illegal immigration.” He wrote, “Looking a bit hypocritical. Change the title to ‘I want open borders and no enforcement.’ ”
On Reddit, in the r/The_Donald forum, Trump fans upvoted Parscale’s tweet to a prime position with the message “Savage campaign manager Brad Parscale BTFO Crazy-Stupid Senator Gillibrand!!” (Trump’s admirers tend to be more forgiving of his own turnabouts, on abortion, assault weapons, cuts to Medicaid, and other examples collected in lists such as the Washington Post’s “President Trump, the King of Flip-Flops.”)
In going after Gillibrand, Trump’s allies paid her a surprise compliment, revealing their wariness that, under the right circumstances, she might pose more of a problem for the President than is generally recognized. For years, Gillibrand has been said to have an eye on the White House. Currently, that would put her somewhere on a list of half a dozen Democratic senators jockeying for attention before the 2020 campaign, including Cory Booker, of New Jersey, Kamala Harris, of California, and, more prominently, Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, and Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts.
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