Tim Miller: The Best Message That Dems Have Is the Economic Struggles That Regular People Are Facing Because of Trump
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MILLER: "I think it’s related to the right message. I’m not going to nitpick every tweet Hakeem Jeffries sends. I don’t know. You know, I mean, there’s some some that hit a little harder than others. But I think it’s important just to kind of keep the pressure on Trump. I think that the Democrats, for me, I think that the best message they have kind of is this umbrella message about what we were talking about, the beginning of the segment, which is Donald Trump, like caring more about his house than theirs and, and kind of tying corruption to, you know, the economic struggles that regular people are facing. And Donald Trump has made that very easy for them because he says over and over again that he’s bored by the housing question, and he has obviously, I think it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that his focus is on the remodeling of the of the White House and, you know, the Kennedy center and the marble armrests. And like, this is what he cares about. He doesn’t care about making things more affordable for people. He makes he calls that a hoax. The idea that affordability is an issue. So I just think if the Democrats can kind of have a two birds with one stone thing here where they can go after him on his corruption, but and also just talk about how that money that he’s wasting and using in D.C. is like not going to help their lives. Like they’re not getting a new, you know, a new room in their school or a new room in their hospital. Trump’s getting a new room at the White House. And I think that’s the right message for them. The other funny thing about this for the Democrats, Jackie, I know you talked a lot of, you know, in your reporting, the Republicans, you know, the my old people, the more mainstream kind of the old guard Republicans. And oftentimes over the years, they’ve said, hey, we can’t buck Trump on this stuff. We can’t vote for against tariffs. We can’t vote for Ukraine funding because Trump’s too powerful. You know, we don’t want to lose our seat. Like it’s a political imperative that you stick around with Trump because Trump is so powerful. I find it very funny and ironic that like by accident on this housing bill, they bucked Trump because they didn’t know that he was going to have this temper tantrum over the SAVE Act and look at what happened. This thing was going to go into effect at midnight because Trump’s not going to veto it. There’s a bipartisan veto proof majority. All Trump’s going to do is whine about it on social media. None of these Republicans are going to lose their jobs over it. Like we’ve spent 10 years being told that they can’t have a backbone. They can’t demonstrate any courage because they’re worried that they’ll lose their seat if they do. And here we see on the housing bill that actually, this whole time they could have like, Trump’s not as strong as they think."
