Republicans aren’t giving up on those campaign ads trying to tie Democratic candidates to Nancy Pelosi … even though signs are it’s not going to work.
“There is increasing evidence that tying candidates to Pelosi as a campaign tactic may not have the impact needed to bring a race home for Republicans. Just ask [losing PA-18 candidate] Rick Saccone,” David Winston, a Republican pollster close to House GOP leaders, wrote a couple weeks ago in Roll Call. [...]
Winston, for instance, surveyed voters to measure the impact of attacks on Pelosi against positive messaging around the GOP's single biggest domestic policy victory in the Trump era: the $1.5 trillion tax cut signed into law in December.
By a margin of 73 to 12 percent, voters said the tax package was more important to them than whether Pelosi remained the Democratic leader, according to Winston's survey.
Two weeks ago, The Washington Post-ABC News poll found a similar result. It asked respondents to rate whether a candidate “who shares your opinion on Nancy Pelosi” is important in deciding their vote. Of the 35 percent who said it was important, only 17 percent considered the Pelosi factor “extremely important” and a healthy majority of 60 percent who said it was not important.
And yet the tax law isn’t working for Republicans, either! They’re grasping at straws, which is great, except that it’s going to make them ever meaner, ever dirtier. And yes, they’re going to keep attacking Pelosi out of that desperation, because if they’ve got nothing else, they’ll take making people turn from politics in disgust.
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