The GOP keeps handing Democrats ammunition | Opinion
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by the GOP leadership, met with reporters at the Capitol in Washington on May 3, 2022.In the 2020 election, Republicans enjoyed substantial success in their efforts to demonize Democrats by labeling many as socialists and assailing those seeking to revamp or defund local police departments.
Biden set the tone last week when, using the acronym for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement, he attacked “this MAGA crowd” as “really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history.” In attacking Scott’s “ultra-MAGA agenda,” Biden singled out the Florida Republican’s proposal that all Americans “pay some income tax” as a prospective burden that would cost middle-class Americans nearly $1,500 a year. He said Scott’s plan to terminate all federal programs in five years would undercut seniors’ reliance on Social Security and Medicare.
Nearly 3 in 5 said they prefer their states adopt a “more permissive” abortion policy, rather than a “more restrictive one.” A similar majority favors congressional passage of a nationwide right to abortion. A recent Texas poll underscored this point, showing a majority oppose banning all abortions. Texas Republicans have enacted an array of measures restricting abortion rights, including the controversial law allowing private citizens to file suits against any person facilitating abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Besides trying to turn the election onto a referendum on abortion and the unpopularity of some GOP ideas, Democrats hope to focus on some of the more extreme Republican House members.
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