IS THIS YOU? DEMOCRATS THINK IT IS. ARE THEY RIGHT?
For more than a year, DEMOCRATS have been on defense, with the party’s own internal polling clarifying its vulnerability.
But the war in Ukraine has given desperate DEMOCRATS and their media allies a chance to put those matters out of your mind eight months before the midterms.
It may not last, but that depends on you. Economic unrest is traditionally unhelpful to a party in power, so the DEMOCRATS are betting you'll focus on Ukraine and forget the last two years.
The DEMOCRAT National Committee met in Washington this week, and the party elite was breathing a sigh of relief.
By blaming Putin, DEMOCRATS are confident that you won't remember that inflation, which notched a 40-year high on Thursday, was hitting Americans long before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Voters have a history of punishing politicians for sky-high gas prices, but Joe Biden's handlers think they can play you for a fool by pretending that it was all Putin's fault.
“Thanks to our messaging in the media this past week, the American people have begun to believe that gas prices are going up right now thanks to Putin’s war, but we need to do more to talk about how inflation was caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and we need to communicate a message that shows we understand what the Ukrainians are going through,” said Jeffrey Pollock, a DEMOCRAT pollster.
For DEMOCRATS, the shift in public attention to the war in Ukraine is a WMD; a wave of mass distraction they intend to ride until November.
If you let them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/12/democrats-culture-wars-dnc-00016641
