Democrats concerned about motivating Trump's base in 2022

 Red States:

While sending out a press blast (i.e. Democrats giving the news media their talking points), DCCC officials accidentally included their internal communications about messaging and how to handle a House race in California.

It’s embarrassing.

The first part of this is that Democrats are apparently so scared of Trump’s voting base that they are actively eschewing going after Steel, the Republican, for voting not to impeach. Steel won the district in 2020 even as Biden carried it on the presidential side. If Democrats are confused on how to handle such a swing district, that’s not good news for their strategy going forward. This should be a district they are slightly favored in, but they are tripping over themselves to not bring out Trump’s voters. That shows they think the threat of that is real, and it’s going to be an interesting dynamic going into 2022.

But it’s the second part of this that is really just maximum cringe. One DCCC official pushed back on the idea of calling Steel a “QAnon Congressomwan” because she’s never expressed any support for the fringe movement. Despite that, Rouda, the Democrat who lost in 2020 but is seeking a rematch in 2022, requested the laughable nickname be included anyway.

Yes, the best these clowns can come up with is shouting “QAnon” at a California congresswoman who has never done anything to support QAnon. These people have nothing, folks.

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They know that despite all their attempts to denigrate Trump and separate him from his base it is not working.  I am sure they have seen the polling that even though they have blocked Trump's access to social media and mainstream media clearly hates him, voters continue to support him.