Once a choker, always a choker. That was Donald Trump’s line — sometimes misspelled — about a Republican primary opponent. Now the Democrats are trying to turn it against Trump on getting Mexico to pay for his proposed border wall.

“It turns out Trump didn’t just choke, he got beat in the room and lied about it,” Hillary for America Chairman John Podesta said in a statement last week, referring to conflicting accounts of whether Mexico would pay for the wall.