GOP strategist Josh Holmes told McClatchy the President Trump is an asset for the midterm elections and that Republicans are counting on his media dominance to turn out their voters in November — and drown out opponents’ messaging.
Said Holmes: “Everybody thinks that President Trump is some kind of drag on the Republican Party, [when] in this case, he’s just the essential ingredient.”He added: “What the president is doing by continuing to discuss the investigation and the quote-unquote ‘witch hunt,’ particularly on prime time Fox News, is doing more to mobilize base voters than any legislative issue we’ve seen.”
More: “You could be up with 10 million points of health care messaging from now until the election. None of that matters if President Trump doesn’t utter the word health care. He controls the conversation in a way that we have not seen a president do.”
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