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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was one of many first Democrats in management to see that there was a possibility for his get together within the MAGA demand of their president to launch the Epstein recordsdata.
Jeffries noticed a gap to not solely break up Trump from his congressional Republican protectors, but in addition to tie Epstein to the corruption of Trump and the Republican Get together.
Chief Jeffries was proper. He has been in a position to drive a wedge by Republicans and Trump is floundering.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was the primary to seize the problem in early July, and it was quickly embraced by Jeffries, who has unified Democrats and instructed the entire Democratic committee management within the Home to maintain the Epstein stress on.
Politico reported on the success of the Democratic technique:
The technique has successfully hijacked the Home, derailed Hill Republicans’ agenda and compelled Speaker Mike Johnson to ship lawmakers packing for an early August recess. That’s to not point out embarrassing Trump within the course of and exposing the shocking limits of his sway on a celebration he’s held in his clutches for the higher a part of a decade.
“We’ve been making an attempt to say Trump is stuffed with shit for years and it hasn’t actually caught, proper? However one thing about this subject is making a wholesome portion of MAGA world — significantly people who will not be ideologically aligned with Trump however sort of flirted with him final yr after they pulled the lever for him — be like, ‘Yea, he’s positively stuffed with shit,’” a senior Democratic marketing campaign aide boasted to me. (This aide and others within the story have been granted anonymity to talk candidly about dynamics on the Hill.)
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“Everybody’s all the time speaking about Trump being ‘Teflon’ — clearly that’s as a result of all Hill Republicans are just about a go well with of armor for him, proper? However on this occasion, they’re not,” stated a senior Democratic aide discussing the technique. “And so it exposes him, I feel, to extra assaults that in any other case can be dismissed — and makes it simpler for us to pull his numbers down whereas creating chaos among the many Republicans.”
Democrats have been so profitable that they compelled Speaker Mike Johnson to close down the Home and ship everybody residence as a result of the Speaker doesn’t wish to maintain any votes or debate on Epstein.
Trump’s energy comes from the safety that Republicans in Congress give him, and on this problem, that safety is gone.
