{"id":9224,"date":"2022-11-04T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2022-11-04T21:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:04:48","slug":"bidens-party-is-still-boosting-those-maga-republicans-the-president-warned-us-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9224","title":{"rendered":"Biden’s Party Is Still Boosting Those ‘MAGA Republicans’ the President Warned Us About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The ads may have taken different tacks, but all have the same emphasis: presenting moderate Republican candidates as less appealing to the party’s base. If Republican primary voters choose candidates further from the mainstream, then Democrats hope to have an easier time beating them in the general election. By now this is a familiar pattern: In states from Maryland<\/a> to Pennsylvania<\/a> to Michigan<\/a>, Democrats have collectively spent tens of millions<\/a> on ads painting Republican candidates as “too conservative” or “handpicked by Trump.”
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It’s a bad idea in any context, but the tactic looks especially craven in light of President Joe Biden’s speech in Philadelphia earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Independence Hall, Biden warned<\/a> that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” He said they “promote authoritarian leaders,” “fan the flames of political violence,” and are “committed\u2026to destroying American democracy.” Opposing these forces constituted “a battle for the soul of this nation.”But Biden’s warning rings hollow while his party is spending a fortune propping up MAGA Republican candidates, hoping to make them just electable enough for primary voters but not quite electable enough for the general public. It’s a considerable gamble that could easily backfire.”
https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/09\/13\/bidens-party-is-still-boosting-those-maga-republicans-the-president-warned-us-about\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The ads may have taken different tacks, but all have the same emphasis: presenting moderate Republican candidates as less appealing to the party’s base. If Republican primary voters choose candidates further from the mainstream, then Democrats hope to have an easier time beating them in the general election. By now this is a familiar pattern: In states from Maryland to Pennsylvania to Michigan, Democrats have collectively spent tens of millions on ads painting Republican candidates as “too conservative” or “handpicked by Trump.”<\/p>\n

It’s a bad idea in any context, but the tactic looks especially craven in light of President Joe Biden’s speech in Philadelphia earlier this month.<\/p>\n

From Independence Hall, Biden warned that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” He said they “promote authoritarian leaders,” “fan the flames of political violence,” and are “committed\u2026to destroying American democracy.” Opposing these forces constituted “a battle for the soul of this nation.”<\/p>\n

But Biden’s warning rings hollow while his party is spending a fortune propping up MAGA Republican candidates, hoping to make them just electable enough for primary voters but not quite electable enough for the general public. It’s a considerable gamble that could easily backfire.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[585,583,198,780,1753,968,506],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-campaign","tag-campaign-finance","tag-elections","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}