Democrats Try to Recycle Romney Attacks

Greg Sargent: “Early in the 2012 campaign, when top Democratic strategists were debating how to target Mitt Romney, they worked to hone their message about him down to a single, tight, pithy phrase. According to one senior Democrat in on the discussions, they finally settled on this: ‘When people like him do well, people like you get screwed.'”

“While this sentence never appeared in any Dem messaging, it functioned as a thematic guide, the senior Dem tells me. Now Democrats are wrestling with how to deliver a similar message about Trump, while also dealing with a key strategic problem: In many ways, Trump is a very different kind of billionaire from Romney.”