Trump Campaign Trying To Rebrand Racist Attacks As Clever 'Strategy'

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s racist attack on four Democratic congresswomen is undisciplined impulsiveness now being dressed up as insightful “strategy” by his supporters, Republican political consultants said, arguing it will likely make his reelection campaign even harder. “Trump’s attack on them raised their profile and forced Democrats to embrace them.” Yet even longtime Trump supporter Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director in 2017, said that Trump’s language undid whatever value there was in making New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar, Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib and Massachusetts’ Ayanna Pressley the public face of the Democratic Party. It’s not going to work with any persuadable part of the electorate.” He added that the one thing Trump had managed to do was to rescue a Democratic caucus that had been fighting among itself: “It’s all incredibly stupid.” “There is always this need to attribute this master plan to Trump because otherwise, you have to come to terms with the fact that he’s a blithering idiot.” - Stuart Stevens, Republican campaign consultant One longtime Republican pollster who spoke on condition of anonymity said he cannot predict what effect Trump’s attacks will have. “When the president of the United States says something that would get your kid kicked out of school, that’s supposed to make you want to vote for him?” Stevens said the entire Trump campaign strategy of repeating what they did in 2016 — when Trump got 3 million fewer votes than Democrat Hillary Clinton and had the assistance of the Russian government in driving down minority turnout and leaking stolen emails in the final month — was akin to a drunk driver who makes it home safely and then comes to believe that he actually drives better while inebriated.