In advance of President Biden descending into Lauren Boebert's congressional district today to talk about the popular economic issues she voted against, NPR featured the PCCC declaring this a "smart fight" with Republican extremists.
"In order for the public to understand the difference between Democrats and Republicans on things like jobs or lower price prescription drugs, we need to see a fight," PCCC co-founder Adam Green said to NPR's Deepa Shivaram. "This particular trip might be outsized in its influence and is a good downpayment on a larger strategy of picking smart fights with Republicans."
In recent meetings with White House officials and other Democratic leaders, we and our friends at Data For Progress showed polling that revealed a few key lessons.
One big one was that Democrats are struggling (a lot) to break through on economic issues. But we are most successful when we engage Republicans on high-profile (high-drama) fights! We gotta keep it interesting to attract the media.
Lauren Boebert won her 2022 election by 546 votes. Nobody was paying attention to that race -- with a presidential visit, they are now!
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- The PCCC Elections Team
P.S. After you donate, here are some fun links:
- Today's NPR story -- audio (5:43) and transcript.
- The polling we showed the White House is here and a video explaining it is here.
- Our polling with Data For Progress was covered by the Guardian, Politico, and featured in a lengthy discussion from Pod Save America, where host Dan Pfeiffer called it "a real formula and roadmap for Democrats to adopt going forward which I think can be very, very, very useful." Discussing our proposed strategy for Democrats to break through a crowded news environment on Tara Palmeri’s Somebody’s Gotta Win podcast last week, Adam Green said Democrats need to ask, "How can we draw Republicans into a fight?"
Issues where Republicans engaged Democrats in high-profile clash (like cancel student debt and Ukraine) broke through the most:
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