Scott Jennings: Regardless of DSA Candidates’ Preferences, Their General Platform ‘Contain Things that Sound Crazy for Average Voters’

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JENNINGS: "His argument is that the larger overlay of this socialist platform does contain things that are going to sound, frankly, crazy to the average voter. That gives Republicans running in a difficult environment a strategic opening to draw a contrast. So to your point, I agree with you. Look, I‘ve never been in an election cycle when the economy wasn‘t the most important issue, save 2002, when — right after 9/11, when Republicans outkicked the historical narrative there. But most of the time it‘s the economy and you will have to tangle with it. But when these Democrats — "
COLLINS:" So you are worried about that?"
JENNINGS: "Of course. But when the Democrats give you openings on things that just, frankly, make them sound unhinged, when — look, part of campaigning is finding the ground on which you want to fight. And if you don‘t want to fight on this ground because it‘s weak for you, you climb onto a different hill that's stronger for you. And these Democratic Socialists are giving us those hills every day."