By Tina Nguyen
As Donald Trump
proved in the 2016 election, pummeling your Democratic opponent is most
effective when done early and often. Of course, it doesn’t hurt when
that candidate is the frontrunner from the very beginning, or when she
has a decades-long record in public office to draw on, as Hillary Clinton did. So it comes as little surprise that Republicans are pre-emptively targeting progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren,
among other potential 2020 candidates, in order to dirty her reputation
long before the actual presidential election season begins in earnest.
Warren, who made a name for herself as an anti-Wall Street firebrand in the Bernie Sanders
mold, is expected to easily win re-election in Massachusetts in 2018.
But G.O.P. operatives aren’t waiting for Warren to run in 2020 before
using the upcoming election as an opportunity to launch a familiar set
of attacks.
Politico reports
that a mysterious super PAC called Massachusetts First has begun a
campaign to “bring to light her hypocrisy and out-of-touch policy
positions,” running radio ads and raising $200,000 to continue its
attack against the “hypocrite professor” from Harvard. A whopping
$150,000 of Massachusetts First’s war chest was donated by Robert Mercer, the billionaire Trump supporter who is also a major stakeholder in Breitbart News and a longtime patron of Steve Bannon. Notably, it was the largest donation Mercer made this year, according to F.E.C. records.
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Source: Vanity Fair (via The Empire Report)
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