New DGA chair thinks Trump will be so toxic in 2018 that Dem candidates won't need to name him

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The Daily 202: New DGA chair thinks Trump will be so toxic in 2018 that Dem candidates won’t need to name him

By James Hohmann December 12 at 8:39 AM

THE BIG IDEA:

PHILADELPHIA — Jay Inslee, the new chairman of the Democratic Governors' Association, believes President Trump will be so toxic by next November that down-ballot Democrats will not even need to mention him by name to ride a wave of backlash.

In fact, the governor of Washington state — who previously spent eight terms in the U.S. House — is encouraging candidates across the country to stay focused as much as possible on core economic issues.

“We need to talk about jobs,” Inslee said in an interview here. “People will figure out for themselves that they have to stand up to Donald Trump. They're doing that without us saying a word. That's not our communications strategy. We want to communicate about jobs and the economy. The other thing just happens organically.”

One of Inslee’s three sons got married in Philadelphia the Saturday before last. The governor had some down time while he was in town, so I took the train up to have lunch with him. As he ate a pulled pork sandwich and sipped a diet Pepsi at The Logan hotel, Inslee outlined his theory of the case for the midterms.

He dubs it the “double-P” strategy: The personality of the president will create the climate for a change election, and then Democrats will focus on prosecuting the case that GOP policies are hurting middle-class families.

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