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Dems lash Coffman with site tying Republican to Trump
Colorado Statesman
http://www.coloradostatesman.com/dems-lash-coffman-site-tying-republican-trump/
“Congressman Coffman has not only pledged to support Donald Trump,” the Democrats’ website charges, citing a comment made by a campaign spokeswoman on the day after the Iowa caucuses, “he has spent his entire political career championing the type of reckless, divisive and discriminatory agenda that created Donald Trump.”
Strategists on both sides of the aisle say an association with Trump could prove toxic among suburban Colorado voters, including those Coffman represents, but also that the same voters could be more prone than usual to splitting their ticket.
The Democrats’ attack site includes an animated video that juxtaposes a number of Trump’s most inflammatory statements with Coffman’s positions, including Trump’s charges that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States paired with Coffman’s notorious comments to a Republican group that he didn’t know if, “in his heart,” Obama was an American.
“I just disagree with his tone,” the video quotes Coffman as saying, pulling a sentence from a CNN report about Republican reaction to Trump’s remarks about a Hispanic judge. The web video’s announcer asks, “Really?”