Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster, Biden’s advisers have discussed elevating a unifying GOP figure that can replace the best foil the Democrats have ever been gifted — Donald Trump.
Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster, advisers to President Biden have discussed elevating a unifying Republican foil not named Donald Trump.Biden confidants worry that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is too unknown, that Biden won't demonize Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell because of their longstanding and collegial relationship and that elevating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could backfire.
But as Terry McAuliffe's loss in the Virginia governor's race showed last fall, running against an out-of-office Trump won't cut it with voters. "It would be a mistake to run against Trump in the 2022 elections," close Biden ally, Sen. Chris Coons , told Axios.told Axios: "I wish that we could just find one face that we could point to, such as with Donald Trump... maybe a composite." She said, "I'd like us to do a much more effective job of really drawing the contrast between Republicans and Democrats."told Axios: "Mitch McConnell is well known...
"If you're trying to negotiate on the Hill, it's hard to draw contrast," she said. "If you're trying to win the November 2022 elections, you must draw a contrast."said Democrats won't get far by raising one individual foil — not even a figure as polarizing as Trump.
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