A reader disagrees concerning the Paulsen attack ad:
I don’t think that ad is as tone-deaf as you think. It plays right to the base with dirty, scurrilous accusations. It’s pure attack ad, and it matters not who is in the White House or anything else. All it says is that Dean Phillips is a liar and implies he’s a tax evader.
And yet, the base and, more importantly, the independents that Paulsen has to win in order to gain re-election will be reminded of who Paulsen supports in the White House – a shady businessman of dubious bona fides, a character who talks big, yet whose biggest wins have been that he can pick judges that are mostly rubber-stamped by a GOP-controlled Senate, an absolutely chronic liar who should be sitting in an alley, drinking avidly from a whiskey bottle, rather than sitting in the Oval Office.
That’s the risk for Paulsen, that reminder that he supports Trump. And if his district has tired of Trump’s antics, that may hurt him.
But I have an awful record when it comes to political prediction, so never mind me.
