The Democratic National Committee is rushing ahead with an initiative to define Donald Trump's potential running mates as MAGA extremists.
The DNC is coordinating with President Joe Biden's campaign to lump all of Trump's VP candidates together as "all the same" in backing "ultra-MAGA" positions on the 2020 election, reproductive rights and other issues, and they're planning to use the candidates' own words against them, reported Axios.
"Trump has floated dozens of names, and while he trots them around like sad show ponies on the campaign trail, it doesn't really matter who's in his good graces one day and who's shooting their dog the next," said DNC communications director Rosemary Boeglin.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who has been rumored to be a frontrunner for Trump's running mate, has endured weeks of criticism after revealing that she gunned down her family's puppy in a gravel pit for misbehaving, although it's not clear whether that's dented her chances with the former president.
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The DNC plans to highlight each candidate's stance on the 2020 election and whether they would certify a Trump loss as vice president, and they will focus on their position on a national abortion ban, repealing the Affordable Care Act and cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
"Trump's VP contenders have all already shown they pass his extreme, MAGA litmus test," Boeglin said.
Steven Cheung, the spokesman for Trump's campaign, pushed back on the effort with an attack on vice president Kamala Harris.
"The DNC and their media defenders will stop at nothing to gaslight the American people into believing their lies and forgetting their disastrous record," Cheung said. "The fact is that their VP candidate Kamala Harris, as border czar, has presided over record numbers of illegal crossings across the Southern border and overseen a horrible economic record dominated by crushing inflation numbers. The Biden-Harris agenda has put American lives in danger and the country can't survive another four years of their failed leadership."
