portray him as a lacky for minority leader nancy pelosi, they spent weeks, if not months, accusing him of being a closeted liberal and following nancy pelosi. now he has morphed into a donald trump republican. the talking points are convoluted they make no sense. he wasn t a liberal. he was a center left candidate. he opposed an assault weapons band but that doesn t put him totally outside the democratic main stream. he was a fairly conventional candidate who told a good story but if we re being honest benefitted from a backlash across the country to trump-ism. it s taking place in traditionally red districts, certainly taking place in flip districts.
he ran against the tax cut, for universal health care, for expanded background checks on firearm purchases, stronger unions for social security, a woman s right to choose and medical marijuana. and he didn t ever say i m like trump. are you sure about that? i m sure about that. are you sure about that? i m sure about that. that s shocking to me. let s just step back for a second and recognize that the vast majority of the advertising used against connor lamb was to portray him as a lacky for minority leader nancy pelosi, they spent weeks, if not months, accusing him of being a closeted liberal and following nancy pelosi. now he has morphed into a donald trump republican. the talking points are