Rahm Emanuel: A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates

by Future Majority | 7.29.19

Former White House Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel published a memo calling on Democrats to not make Detroit's debates a repeat of Miami.

When you’re looking into the camera at the coming debate, imagine you’re speaking to a voter in Grand Rapids or Green Bay who holds two core beliefs in her head: that the economy is OK — not bad — and that Trump’s presidency is worse than bad. Showing that you understand those two points will yield electoral gold. You need to convince that voter to fire a president who is acting like the leader of a circus rather than the leader of the greatest nation on Earth. While at her kitchen table, explain why you’re the candidate best equipped to secure her family’s future. Her vote is how you win the nomination and the White House. Everything else is secondary.

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