by WorldTribune Staff, October 21, 2024 Contract With Our Readers
Democrats in Congress who are in danger of losing their re-election bids are abandoning Kamala Harris and embracing the candidate Harris insists will destroy democracy — Donald Trump.
A campaign ad for Wisconsin Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin features Donald Trump. / Video Image“It’s no accident,” that these Democrat candidates siding with Trump “at this late stage of the race are all running in swing states,” Rick Moran wrote for PJ Media on Oct. 19.
In the Senate, Democrats Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin have run campaign ads that feature President Trump signing bills they sponsored.
“Tammy Baldwin got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill,” says the narrator in Baldwin’s ad.
“Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating,” the Casey campaign ad states.
Axios reported that Democrats Jon Tester of Montana and Sherrod Brown of Ohio Senator are distancing between themselves from Harris and “present themselves as moderate voices in their party. Tester ads have featured Montanans who say they are ‘lifelong Republicans’ or plan to vote for Trump, but back Tester for Senate.”
An ad from earlier this year boasts that Brown “wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to crack down on drugs at the border.”
“These Senate Democrats all voted to impeach President Trump twice, so it is surprising that they are now running ads praising his work as President,” NRSC communications director Mike Berg told Axios.
In the race for an open Senate seat in Michigan, Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who is locked in a tight race with GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, has run a campaign ad on her opposition to EV mandates that could easily have been made by the Trump team.
“I’m Elissa Slotkin, I live on a dirt road, nowhere near a charging station,” Slotkin says in the ad. “So I don’t own an electric car. No one should tell us what to buy, and no one’s gonna mandate anything. But here’s the thing, if there’s going to be a new generation of vehicles, I want that new generation built right here in Michigan, not China. I approve this message because what you drive is your call, no one else’s.”
The Democrats seem to be resigned to pushing for a split ticket, where the congressional of one party wins while the presidential candidate for the other party triumphs.
“It’s not only that Biden-Harris policies are unpopular in most swing states. The practice of ticket-splitting is dying out as polarization makes partisanship the rule rather than the exception,” Moran noted.
Fewer than 4% of congressional districts had split-tickets in 2020.
That’s compared to over 40% of districts ending in split-ticket results 40 years ago.
And that’s despite Gallup reporting this year that 43% in a Gallup poll said they are political independents, which tied for the high the poll’s tracking that goes back several decades.
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