Tucker Carlson: Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ Is Just Trump’s Platform From the 2016 Election
Is the Democratic Party’s plan going forward simply to adopt the philosophy and ideas of Donald Trump?
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced that he was switching parties from Democratic to Republican during a Trump rally in his state on Thursday night. With Justice’s decision, the GOP now has 34 of the governorships across the United States.
In the wake of the Governor’s announcement, Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked if the Democrat party was in need of a new message.
“You can’t just win on identity politics and transgender bathrooms,” he told Democratic strategist Danielle McLaughlin.
Tucker then cited the Democrats’ new plan dubbed the “Better Deal” that Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer recently revealed.
Carlson broke down the tenets of the Democrats’ new proposed plan and likened it to the very same ideas that Donald Trump ran on in the 2016 election.
“Stop trade cheating and market manipulation. Tax companies that ship jobs overseas. Crack down on currency manipulators. Punish outsourcing. Create an independent trade board to prosecute unfair trade policies. Buy American.”
“It’s got everything but build a wall and make Mexico pay for it,” Carlson joked.
“That’s Trump’s platform from the 2016 election, isn’t it?” he asked McLaughlin.
She agreed with Tucker that the Democrats’ new proposals essentially mirror many of the ideas that Donald Trump espoused during his bid for the White House.
“It is but it’s also what Democrats have been talking about not only in 2016 but 2012,” McLaughlin said.
“I think Democrats have been talking about this for a while but they haven’t been using their megaphone or directing their megaphone towards these important messages on trade and American jobs,” she said.
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