Team Trump plans debate night offensive
The president’s campaign will be unleashing dozens supporters on TV in 2020 swing states, blasting out embarrassing moments on social media and dispatching talking points.
The strategy includes traditional elements — a rapid-response squad to field reporters’ questions, round-the-clock talking points and a ground force on site in Miami, where the debate is being held — but also a digitally focused war room looking for viral clips.
Most of Trump’s top-polling potential rivals — like Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Kamala Harris — are set to debate Thursday night, when Trump will be mostly indisposed in meetings.
Trump campaign official said a fully operational war room will spend Wednesday and Thursday night cutting video clips from the debates for the @TrumpWarRoom Twitter account.
Their goal is to highlight any perceived gaffes, contradictions, or flip-flops that occur on the debate stage, with bonus points for content that underscores the campaign’s claim that Democrats are more liberal on average than voters think.
March for Life is running ads @ msnbc & will attempt to show “how out of touch the Democratic Party establishment has become with Democratic voters” on abortion.