The strategists in the Democratic Party are kind of in a tough position
as the midterms draw near Biden and the Democratic Party are incredibly unpopular
and they have basically nothing to run on.
Because they chose Biden and that was inevitably going to happen.
But they do have a strategy a wild card that they're banking on.
It is running ads for republicans for
the most extreme republicans to try to get them to win their primary challenges.
And so this is being reported by the New York times.
Even as National Democrats set off alarms over the threats posed by far right
Republican candidates, like in the January six hearings,
their campaign partners are pursuing an enormously risky strategy promoting.
Some of those same candidates in GOP primaries in hopes that those candidates
will be easier for Democrats to beat.
And we're gonna profile a couple of examples of this.
But the first involves a race in California.
There is a new campaign ad attacking Representative David Valadao,
a relatively moderate Republican for
whatever that's worth in the modern era for voting to impeach Donald Trump.
And we have a bit of that ad take a look at this.
>> Same label, so republicans got to check the ingredients.
David Valadao claims he's Republican yet
David Valadao voted to impeach president Trump and
Republican Chris Mathys a true conservative 100% pro Trump and proud.
>> Just to be clear that is a Democratic linked ad that is
trying to get the 100% pro Trump guy elected.
They call him a military veteran, local businessman, the other guy,
I mean, he voted to impeach Trump.
Like literally everyone who donated to make that ad wanted Trump to be impeached.
But now that's the case of death and you can see there the comparison,
they make the weird can stuff.
But of course, like the guy that they're pushing for
maybe might be easier to beat, but if he gets in office,
he's a legitimate crazy person, as is the case in most of these instances.
Where the Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries and look,
they're doing this because they're in a tough spot.
But because they're in a tough spot,
it is increasingly likely that these radical candidates could end up winning.
And so that makes the strategy extremely risky.
>> Yeah, so this is it terrible idea.
So, but at the same time,
I wanna acknowledge that you can't have cookie cutter approaches.
So is there a time in politics we're spending money on a crazy person and
the other party makes sense.
Yes, but it's super rare.
Okay, so they had an example of McCaskill doing it with Todd Akin back in 2012 and
that is a very good example of it.
And I can name you a couple of others, but you have to be extraordinarily careful and
it should be in a rare situation, but the Democrats are not, are not at all careful,
let alone extraordinarily careful.
Now the best example of this gone awry is the Clintons were positive that
the best person to run against would be Donald Trump.
So they continually aided and abetted him during the Republican primaries.
There's even a story about how Bill Clinton went to play golf with
Donald Trump before the Republican primaries and encouraged him to run
because they thought, he'll destroy the Republican party.
And of course, there's no way he could beat Hillary Clinton.
I mean, look after you've already done the world's worst political calculation,
literally.
I mean, certainly in American history, the worst political calculation ever to
double down on that across the country today in this environment is nuts.
So guys, the country's in a populist mood.
Of course the Democratic Party filled to the room with elites,
doesn't see it at all.
They're like if we get these wild doctor populists to run against
the establishment Democrats will win easily, will you?
Or did you just spend millions and
millions of dollars helping the worst people on earth.
And guys, once you spend the money to build up their name recognition,
you can't take it back.
That is just a huge win for those candidates and
the Republican Party overall and every dollar you spend helping
a Republican is a dollar you could have spent on a Democrat.
And of course what would they have done with that money anyway,
they would have spent it trying to hurt progressives within the Democratic Party,
that's all they're spending it on today.
Right, they're not all of the primary ads are like this progressive is not enough
of a Democrat.
And they literally take Republican money to run ads against progressives.
Then they take Democratic money to run ads on behalf of Republicans.
That's how deeply incompetent the Democratic Party is.
The only reason why they have an absolutely
cratered is because of corporate media that
does just giant complete fabrication marketing on their behalf.
They're so smart, crafty, really crafty.
So their fourth dimensional chest.
No, there are a bunch of morons who lost to Donald Trump and
are now helping the worst people on earth.
>> I mean this is the exact type of incompetence that I've
really just come to expect from the Democratic Party.
But I mean but really what are we to expect from the Democrats?
And the DNC when all they do is hire losers.
And when I say losers, I don't mean personality wise although a little bit,
I mean personality wise but look at the people who are running the DNC.
These are people who lost their campaigns,
Jaime Harrison who is one of the people who was cited a couple of times.
As being one of the masterminds behind this brilliant electoral strategy of
propping up fascists lost his race in 2020 by a large margin.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz lost her race.
She was also working for the Clinton campaign at the time,
that they employed the same failure failure strategy with Trump.
I mean, even Tom Perez was going to lose to be the DNC chair before Obama stepped
in and made sure a real progressive like Keith Ellison who's actually a winner and
actually knows how to win elections wouldn't have that position.
Because then the democrats might actually get something done, but
this is just a way for them to make sure they never have to have policy goals.
To make sure they never have to run on anything and
just can continue to run against someone who is scary.
It's just such deep incompetence within the party.
>> Well, I can see, I'm listening to both of you, I know that you're both worried,
I want to reassure you.
If we can jump ahead to graphic nine Democrats involved acknowledge
the game they're playing.
They insist though they only have one job to preserve their
party's slender majority and
that they're only targeting races where the extremist candidates cannot prevail.
No, because what you guys understand is this can't, this can't fail.
>> [LAUGH]. >> It's a foolproof plan being thought up
by fools.
Do you not get why they would be experts on such such things.
No, but like when someone says, hey, this is a crazy strategy and
literally everyone as we are points out the very high profile case in 2016,
where this clearly didn't work and it was sort of consequential, when it failed.
They still respond with no, you don't have to worry because this can't lose.
Okay, it's only the fate of our country.
You're only gonna potentially pack congressional senatorial races with people
who would love to overturn our entire constitutional order to hand over
the election of Trump if he doesn't just win outright.
Which running against this Democratic party, how could he lose?
>> Yeah, guys, as usual, they're not just in common, they're liars.
One of their districts is only plus four for us.
So, you can easily lose a plus four district, especially in a wave like this,
where the Republicans are likely to have a wave, they're playing with absolute fire.
Okay, and by the way, you don't need this in super safe districts,
that nobody's running ads for republicans in a plus 50 district for Democrats.
By definition, they're running them in tighter races so they can have a more
extremist candidate rather than a moderate Republicans are more likely to lose too.
So they're totally utterly lying that they're only doing it in safe seats.
And then to Raven's point, I mean,
the New York time gives the example of McCaskill doing it right and back in 2012.
What they don't mention is that McCaskill then ran a republican light strategy in
the next election.
And got her ass handed to her lost badly and at a time when the minimum
wage was on the ballot in Missouri and one easily crushed.
Got 62% of the vote if she would run as a democrat, she would have won.
Instead she ran as a Republican, which is basically a political theory
that is adjacent to this one, a corollary to this one.
Then she lost running as a republican.
But they never clarified that for
you, they never clarified Jamie Harrison McCaskill.
All these people are losers were taking advice from people who have
no idea how to win and who have blown giant elections before.
And finally,
there's one thing you shouldn't forget about this disastrous strategy.
They're punishing the Republicans who voted the right way.
>> Yep.
>> So those republicans voted to impeach Trump and then Pelosi and
her goons decided, that was a mistake.
Well now run millions of dollars in ads against you for voting against Trump.
>> That's a great point.
>> And then what are we gonna do then then none of them are gonna vote against Trump.
Not because of Trump's just because of Trump's intimidation.
But because of Pelosi's intimidation, Pelosi and Trump are a tag team here so
you better never vote against Trump otherwise one of us,
if not both of us are gonna use it in primaries against you.
>> Yep.
I can't think of a worse thing to teach republicans in congress a worse lesson.
It's just our leadership.
Do not believe the mainstream media, they're deeply incompetent.
This iceberg is straight ahead and
they're staring right into it cuz they're a bunch of absolute morons.