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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 09:51 PM Feb 2020

Democrats 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. Trump’s efforts to compromise the independence of the Justice Department. But for now, at least, they have shelved the idea of subpoenaing Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, who was a central figure in the president’s 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 party’s 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

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Democrats Plan to Highlight Health Care and Jobs Over Investigating Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 OP
Good, but they can do both. tman Feb 2020 #1
I tripped over this today. KentuckyWoman Feb 2020 #2
They need to Faux pas Feb 2020 #3
They're wrong. Bloomberg has this right. CalFione Feb 2020 #4
Democrats didn't fail. We impeached His Lowness* tRUMP and there's no reason not to employ abqtommy Feb 2020 #5
MSNBC showed a poll that said 60-something % of Americans think Trump deserves bullwinkle428 Feb 2020 #6

KentuckyWoman

(6,679 posts)
2. I tripped over this today.
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 10:12 PM
Feb 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vows-insurance-for-everybody-in-obamacare-replacement-plan/2017/01/15/5f2b1e18-db5d-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?postshare=1231484529419268

DJT in 2017

I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.


They’re 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 government’s gonna pay for it.
 

CalFione

(571 posts)
4. They're wrong. Bloomberg has this right.
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 11:14 PM
Feb 2020

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)
5. Democrats didn't fail. We impeached His Lowness* tRUMP and there's no reason not to employ
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 11:51 PM
Feb 2020

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)
6. MSNBC showed a poll that said 60-something % of Americans think Trump deserves
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 11:56 PM
Feb 2020

"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.

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