Fresh faces bring familiar GOP refrain: Dems are too extreme

BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE AND MIKE LILLIS - 02/07/19 06:00 AM EST

House Republicans are amplifying an old but frequently reliable script as they fight to win back the lower chamber in 2020: Democrats, they contend, are simply too extreme to lead the country.

The argument is hardly new: GOP leaders and campaign operatives have, for decades, attacked Democrats for their liberal positions, particularly in the nearly 20 years that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has led the party.

But the arrival of an enormous new crop of Democratic freshmen — a group that features a handful of outspoken, liberal provocateurs — has only fueled the GOP’s appetite for branding the Democrats as out of touch with the voters they serve.

“The radical Democrats can’t help themselves,” reads a typical subject line in an email blasted out last month by the GOP’s campaign arm.

The Republicans’ messaging campaign encompasses a wide spectrum of policies being promoted by the insurgent liberal wing of the Democratic Party, including efforts to adopt a “Medicare for all” health care system, abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and hike tax rates on high-income earners.

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