Marc Lotter, a director of strategic communications for President Trump’s 2020 campaign, said Thursday that the first Democratic primary debate the night before showed that the party is out of touch with middle-class voters.
“We even heard one of their candidates say it last night,” Lotter told Hill.TV. “The only piece of truth that came out of that debate last night was that Democrats no longer represent working Americans.”
“They’ve abandoned the working middle class,” he added.
Lotter went on to express confidence in Trump’s reelection, saying Americans put him in the White House in 2016 and “they’re going to do it again in 2020.”
Ten of the more-than-two-dozen Democratic White House hopefuls took the stage during Wednesday’s debate in Miami, touting a number of progressive policies on a wide-range of issues.
But, in response to a question about climate change, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), said the party must first address its “perception problem” among middle-class and Midwestern voters before finding solutions for bigger issues like global warming.
“We are not connecting to the working-class people in the very states I represent, in Ohio, in the industrial Mid-West. Ryan said. “We’ve lost all connection.”
He added that the party has to “change the center of gravity” from being “coastal, elitist and Ivy league” in order to get those voters back on their side to pursue more green initiatives in the region.
Ryan hasn’t found much traction in the polls so far. In most national polls, he’s polling at around 1 percent, and according to a recent Morning Consult survey, more than 60 percent of voters have either no opinion of him or have never heard of him.
—Tess Bonn
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