*Similar Releases Sent to Targeted Districts Across the Country*
After pledging to vote for the “eventual nominee,” Erik Paulsen was surely watching the debate last night, hoping Donald Trump would make it easier to stand with him. Unfortunately for Paulsen, that just didn’t happen, and the news just gets worse: he is down two against Terri Bonoff, as Minnesota’s 3rd District voters recognize that Republicans are the Party of Trump.
This comes as the DCCC is showing voters just how similar Erik Paulsen and Donald Trump are in their positions on women’s choice and equal pay in a television ad on air now.
Paulsen has plenty of things from Trump’s performance to give him heartburn. We are curious: what was Paulsen’s favorite part?
- Was it when Trump admitted that he rooted on the 2008 housing collapse because “it’s called business”?
- Or when Trump reminded everyone of his racist and unfounded assertion that our nation’s first black president wasn’t born in America?
- How about when Trump suggested it was true that he didn’t pay small business owners working on his properties, like architects or window installers, leaving them in financial distress?
- Or when Trump denied ever having said that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese?
- Or maybe when Donald Trump declared that his “strongest asset” is his temperament – when 50 national security experts have warned that Trump would put the “nation’s security at risk”?
- Perhaps it was this morning, hours after Secretary Clinton invoked Alicia Machado as one of the many women Trump whose appearance Trump has criticized, when Trump defended calling her “Miss Piggy” by saying the woman gained too much weight. Is Trump now the president you want for your daughters?
“Last night, Donald Trump once again boasted about not paying small business owners, degraded women, renewed his previous belief that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, and admitted he cheered on the housing crisis. The question for Erik Paulsen is: what was your favorite part of the debate?” asked Sacha Haworth of the DCCC.