Democrats eyeing 2018 say it's time to start talking Russia
Democrats say they don’t want to fixate on Russia during next year’s elections.
Robert Mueller’s investigation might not give them a choice.
Monday’s bombshell revelations — highlighted by the indictment of Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — offer a vivid example of the political bind gripping Democrats, who want to discuss jobs and health care but instead must react to new developments in Special Counsel Mueller’s probe into allegations of collusion between the Republican’s campaign and Russia.
The expectation of fresh breaks in the case, which could last well into 2018, has convinced some leading party operatives that candidates need to simply embrace the Russia story.
“We’re fooling ourselves if we think we have a choice,” said Adam Jentleson, senior strategic adviser to Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal-leaning group.
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