Julie Pace: It Wasn’t ‘a Particularly Effective Strategy’ for Trump to Attack Schumer and Pelosi on Twitter

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PACE: "You have to remember, when Chuck and Nancy get in the room with the President, he actually likes having them there. That’s why they reached this tentative agreement earlier this year on immigration. He is more comfortable with that than he is with Ryan and McConnell. And that doesn’t play well with the President’s base who see Chuck and Nancy as the representation of everything that they hate in Washington. So this was a way to say, 'Yeah, I’m getting these guys together in the room, but I’m not really with Chuck and Nancy.' I don’t think the White House expected that the Democratic leaders would decide to not show up. This is one of those moments where tweets have consequences, even if they are short-term consequences. The fact that the Democrat didn’t show up does nothing now to put the government in better position to stay open on December 8th, which is rapidly approaching. We have no sign of how these sides will come together and keep the government open. So I don’t think it was a particularly effective strategy, if it was a base outreach strategy, because it does nothing to solve the actual problem here."