2020 presidential candidate Rep. Seth Moulton cautioned against a “moral crusade” against President Trump.
“Voters know that he’s an a–hole. I think a lot of Democrats think, ‘You know, these Trump voters, what we need to do is we just need to educate them, and we’re going to get it through their heads that this guy is a bad guy,’” the Massachusetts congressman said in a Thursday interview with Politico.
Moulton, who was one of two 2020 Democratic hopefuls that did not qualify for a position in the first presidential debate, strongly advised his party against setting the wheels in motion for a moral crusade against Trump.
“OK, Trump voters are not idiots. We don’t need to give America a moral education; they know that he’s an a–hole. They get it. They’ve just baked that in.”
Moulton continued, saying, “When we’re trying to win over Trump voters in the general election, we can’t go on this moral crusade because people are like, ‘Give me a break.’ What they’re really saying is, ‘I get it, I get this guy is immoral. I’m voting for him anyway because you don’t give me a better alternative.’”
Moulton believes that he can run a campaign opposing Trump “in a way that doesn’t alienate his voters.”
But before he can prove that in a debate, he must first achieve 65,000 donations or 1% in three Democratic National Committee-approved polls.
