Republicans just keep running on the most pressing issues of the day: When it’s not Democrats’ imaginary ties to terrorism, it’s Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.
In a debate Monday night, Republican Rep. Dave Brat said Pelosi’s name more than 20 times, to the point where it drew laughter in the audience. Abigail Spanberger, his Democratic opponent, was not exactly caught flatfooted:
“You are running against me,” Spanberger retorted at one point, “certainly not Nancy Pelosi,” drawing cheers from her supporters in the debate audience.
In Florida, Republicans are attacking Democratic House candidate Lauren Baer as a “Clinton crony and Pelosi puppet.” Which is extremely interesting, since while Baer was a State Department adviser when Hillary Clinton was secretary, she also worked with John Kerry, another former Democratic presidential nominee turned secretary of state, and yet for some mysterious reason he’s not part of the attack. What could it possibly be? (The penis. It’s the penis.)
Republicans keep using the Pelosi attack, even though polls show it’s not particularly effective with voters. They keep using the Clinton attack, even though she’s not in office and isn’t running for anything. But since the alternative is talking about their unpopular tax law or their even more unpopular attempts to take health care away from millions of people or their unpopular president, maybe Pelosi, Clinton, and “was briefly a substitute teacher at a Muslim school before getting a high-level security clearance and working as a covert CIA officer” are Republicans’ best options.
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