With their convention over and the republican National Convention days away, Democrats are setting the stage for rebuttals to GOP talking points and noting the things republicans dare not mention, according to the Washington Post.
“We’re also guessing that you won’t hear next week at the RNC a single harsh word for Russia for interfering in our elections or putting a bounty on the lives of our soldiers,” Symone Sanders, a senior adviser on the Biden campaign, said. “I don’t think you’ll hear a kind word on the legacy of civil rights warrior John Lewis, let alone the voting rights bill that bears his name.”
“I bet you won’t hear the word ‘climate,’ ” she added. “And, you know, you might hear a few people quoting the Constitution, but you won’t hear anyone who understands it. Most of all, though, you are not going to hear a single reason that Donald Trump deserves to be reelected.”
Democrats will release at least one video per day to counter RNC programming. Given that Trump and his administration have a long habit of lying, the Democrats will also be offering fact checks in real time on various sites and via text.
“He’ll do what he always does — lie, scare, distract, divide and make next week all about himself,” DNC Chair Tom Perez said during a call with reporters. “Joe Biden, as you saw, made this past week about the American people, especially those who are struggling.”
Neglecting his own statement about “American carnage,” Trump tried to characterize Biden nomination acceptance speech as an attack on America, not criticism of Trump’s policies and leadership.
“They spent four straight days attacking America as racist and a horrible country that must be redeemed,” Trump told the Council for National Policy, a conservative activist group, in Arlington, Virginia. “Joe Biden grimly declared a season of American darkness, and yet look at what we’ve accomplished.”