The Republican National Committee, already turning to President Trump’s 2020 election campaign, plans to pit the surging economy and employment explosion against the bid to raid the Treasury by “socialists” like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
“These new progressive Democrats, the Bernie Sanders wing, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, what they are purporting is dangerous,” said RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel.
“They’re saying, ‘We’ll give you the moon and the stars, but we’re not going to tell you how we’ll pay for it.’ I’ll tell you how they are going to pay for it: taxpayer dollars,” she said in laying out an early version of her 2020 plan.
Appearing on Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy’s popular podcast this week, McDaniel also wished loudly for Democrats Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to join the race against Trump, as both have threatened.
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“Oh, I think Elizabeth Warren would be a dream come true, and Hillary Clinton running again, that would be fantastic,” she told the Republican. Duffy, a former lumberjack athlete, calls his podcast the “Plaidcast” and complimented McDaniel for her choice of a lumberjack’s plaid shirt.
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Elizabeth Warren hasn’t even announced her presidential campaign yet, but Democrats are already running away from her after her botched DNA stunt.
Even her top aides are meeting with her 2020 rivals.pic.twitter.com/0ydp0MKIiR
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) December 10, 2018
McDaniel expressed concern that in the midterm congressional elections many suburban women shifted left, apparently unaware of the efforts by the Republicans to boost the economy, cut taxes and add jobs.
She promised to build a strong messaging machine to make that case in time for the next election. And that battle plan will also include the threat by liberals to spend more tax dollars, which could threaten the economic boom.
Duffy sized it up this way: “So you don’t get to spend your hard earned money. You’re going to give it to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that bright rising star in the socialist Democrat party, and let her spend your money for you.”
McDaniel also said that the RNC is already working to keepformer that Trump surprisingly won in 2016, including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in his column and add New Hampshire, Nevada and Minnesota.
