Molly Ball: Dem Candidates Really Talking Very Little About Trump But More About Health Care

‘I think that is also a lesson that they took away from 2016’

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BALL: “And you know, the other thing I think is really interesting here is the way you hear Democrats running in this election is despite all the things the President says and despite the potential he has to turn off so many swing voters, you do not have a lot of Democratic candidates whose campaign message mostly is, 'Look how offensive Donald Trump is.' I think that is also a lesson that they took away from 2016, because they felt like Hillary Clinton’s closing message of 'Look how offensive Donald Trump is' didn’t work for her because voters wanted to hear something else. They wanted to hear something more substantive, they wanted to hear about health care, they wanted to hear about economic growth. And so you do have Democratic candidates really talking very little about Trump and talking very much about particularly health care."

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