Democrats still haven’t explained what they will be offering to prospective voters in the 2018 midterms that will earn them enough votes to recapture the House and/or Senate. In March, Congressional Democrats inexplicably unveiled a plan to raise taxes back to a pre-Trump level but promptly dropped the proposal once the public got wind of it.
Later the same month, the party of “no” came out with a gun control package that would expand background checks, ban certain weapons, and give the courts the power to temporarily take guns away from people deemed to be a threat to themselves or others. But their proposal came after Trump had already verbalized support for these same goals, besides which gun control has almost never been a winning prospect for Democrats.
As Election Day edges ever closer, one Democrat has hit upon a platform he is sure will succeed. His name is Rich Madaleno, he is running to unseat Republican incumbent Larry Hogan as governor of Maryland, and his self-described goal is “to piss off Donald Trump.”
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How? By opposing the president at every turn. Trump cut funding to Planned Parenthood? Madaleno has come out in support of Planned Parenthood. He has also come out in support of a statewide assault weapons ban and opposes school vouchers.
But his ace in the hole is that he is gay, and to infuriate the president, he has released a campaign ad that ends with him planting a smooch on the lips of his husband. Watch:
It’s a novel approach: There’s no doubt about that. But 30% of Maryland’s population is black, and blacks as a demographic are socially conservative. How many of those voters will warm to a campaign spot that shows their next governor kissing another man?
