Now they’re worried about it?
Via Washington Examiner:
Senior Democratic strategists, fearful of alienating President Trump’s working-class base, are planning a midterm advertising strategy that targets House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
This emerging strategy to win back the House in 2018, boosted by Ryan’s tumbling national approval ratings, is a quiet concession by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that attacking Trump could turn off white voters in targeted districts who are unhappy with Washington and open to voting for the party’s candidates, but remain loyal to Trump or are not ready give up on him.
“There is no interest in isolating these voters,” said a party insider familiar with the approach of the Democrats’ House campaign arm.
The party needs to gain a net of 24 seats this time next year to win a majority in the House. Historic trends, Trump’s low national approval ratings plus the national generic ballot asking voters which party they want to control Congress, all suggest Democrats have an opportunity to succeed.