Dems punch back on GOP's economic messaging
House Democrats this week launched an 11th-hour campaign designed to take the wind out of the sails of the GOP’s central argument heading into the November midterm elections: that the country is more prosperous under Republican rule.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and her fellow Democrats are rolling out a series of state-specific reports that show low- and middle-class workers have been left behind while the wealthiest Americans have benefited handsomely from the Republicans’ economic agenda.
The late messaging campaign provides a counter-punch to the GOP’s principal pitch — amplified by President Trump at his campaign-style rallies — that their economic formula has lifted all ships across the income spectrum. It also indicates that Democrats, in the final push toward the Nov. 6 elections, see political gold in battling Republicans head-on over an issue the GOP considers its strongest selling point.
“What is at stake in this election is nothing less than the health and financial security of families across America,” Pelosi said in an email.
The deep-dive reports survey the economic conditions in more than a dozen states roughly two years after Trump took office. The takeaway, Democrats found, is that low- and middle-class workers are suffering the effects of wage stagnation, higher health care costs and a lack of congressional action to boost infrastructure projects — smoking-gun evidence, Democrats say, that Trump’s economic arguments are little more than bluster.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/411003-dems-punch-back-on-gops-economic-messaging