Jay Inslee Wants to Take Down the 'Republican Governors Who Are Kowtowing'
The Washington governor and DGA head wants gubernatorial races to become a battlefield for the anti-Trump resistance.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE March 06, 2018
Jay Inslee wants governors’ races to become the rallying cry for the resistance to President Donald Trump.
“It’s a great awakening that we have to fight on a state-by-state basis,” the Washington governor and chair of the Democratic Governors Association said in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast.
Democrats are tracking Republican gubernatorial primaries, where in most states, candidates—even in Nevada, Michigan, Florida and Tennessee, where Trump’s backing of one candidate is already public—are still elbowing each other to out-Trump each other.
The strategy isn’t anything like the distance that many House Republicans are already trying to create from the president.
“If the Democrats want to use my support for the president and vice president against me, I say bring it on,” says Tennessee Rep. Diane Black, a Republican who’s running for governor, touting her support for the president wherever she goes, and believes her vote for his tax bill is going to be one of her best weapons.
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