Democrats start blitz to sell infrastructure

[brooklynite]

The Hill

Democrats are readying a full court press to sell President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure package to voters and protect their most vulnerable members in next year’s midterms.

On Tuesday, Biden participated in a virtual grassroots event with Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison where the two discussed infrastructure legislation. The committee projected images highlighting the infrastructure plan on a hotel in downtown Baltimore ahead of Biden’s visit to the Port of Baltimore on Wednesday.

State parties are also getting in on the action, promoting the package and targeting Republicans who voted against it.

Wisconsin’s Democratic Party and the state’s labor leaders held a press conference Wednesday to sell the plan to Wisconsin voters and hit incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for his vote against the legislation. Meanwhile, the North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania Democratic Parties held virtual press calls to sell the legislation.

[luv2fly]

1. Didn't hear anything on local news about the Wisconsin Democratic party event yesterday

Didn't know about it until I read your post. I'm not surprised, but if this is the start of their publicity blitz, they'll have to do much better.

Joe might want to consider rallies, meet fire with fire.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. The Hill, uh, it's already sold...lol. Now to dispel misinformation and misdirection YOU were a

part of.

[Scrivener7]

3. Projecting images on a wall in Baltimore and holding press conferences ain't going to do it.

This isn't a blitz. This is a nap.

We have known for a generation that these old ways of selling legislation don't work.

And yet we grind away at them.

[doc03]

4. A blitz? Didn't know anything about it until I saw on DU Biden

was in Baltimore earlier yesterday. The MSN is stuck on the Inflation rate and the Rittenhouse
trial now, they can only concentrate on one or two shinny objects at a time.

[jimfields33]

5. It's popular by polls. Why the sell?

[msongs]

6. make people aware of it and that its democrats who are responsible nt

[Torchlight]

8. To avoid a repeat of the electoral losses in the mid-terms attributed to Affordable Care Act.

"[T]he sausage-making never helps. Democrats need to get on to showing people that the sausage was high in protein... So Democrats have a major imperative to show people that we've delivered an economic agenda in these plans, but we don't have the wind in our face,” said Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson.

(from the story)

[Elessar Zappa]

7. Great, that's what we need to do.

Make sure the public knows who’s fixing their roads and bringing in broadband.