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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Plan to Highlight Health Care and Jobs Over Investigating Trump
WASHINGTON House Democrats, recovering from their failed push to remove President Trump from office, are making a sharp pivot to talking about health care and economic issues, turning away from their investigations of the president as they focus on preserving their majority.
Top Democrats say that oversight of the president will continue, and they plan in particular to press Attorney General William P. Barr over what they say are Mr. Trumps efforts to compromise the independence of the Justice Department. But for now, at least, they have shelved the idea of subpoenaing Mr. Trumps former national security adviser, who was a central figure in the presidents impeachment trial.
In a series of private meetings over the past week, and in written instructions she distributed to lawmakers Thursday before a recess this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear that the emphasis must shift.
Health care, health care, health care, the speaker said, describing the partys message during a recent closed-door meeting, according to a person in the room who insisted on anonymity to reveal private conversations. She said they had to be laser-focused on getting re-elected: When you make a decision to win, then you have to make every decision in favor of winning.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/democrats-plan-to-highlight-health-care-and-jobs-over-investigating-trump/ar-BB103EDF?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=hplocalnews
tman
(983 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)DJT in 2017
I am going to take care of everybody. I dont care if it costs me votes or not. Everybodys going to be taken care of much better than theyre taken care of now.
Theyre going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably the governments gonna pay for it.
Faux pas
(14,668 posts)ovary up not tip toe a la old susie collins!
CalFione
(571 posts)If it is a referendum on Trump, we win.
Making it about "jobs", when we are sitting at 3.6% unemployment (Thanks, Obama!) is tone deaf.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)tactics that might actually persuade some of the cultists. The rest of us already know what's what.
*hat tip to dialogue in the original/Jerry Lewis film The Absent-Minded Professor
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)"full" or "a good portion" of the credit for the current "excellent economy". This is the kind of thing that hints that WHATEVER we do, and WHOEVER we run as our nominee, won't end up making enough of a difference to remove him from office.