GOP strategists grieve over this week’s scandals: ‘This sh*tshow doesn’t Make America Great Again’
President Donald Trump. (DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro)
August 23, 2018
The avalanche of bad news that fell Tuesday afternoon on President Donald Trump could bury Republican chances to maintain their congressional majorities, several GOP strategists told Politico.
The president's longtime attorney Michael Cohen identified Trump as a co-conspirator in the campaign finance law he pleaded guilty to violating, and his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of tax and bank fraud a short time later.
Those criminal convictions come as Trump's first national security adviser Michael Flynn and campaign adviser George Papadopoulos await sentencing for lying about their contacts with Russia.
“There’s only so much of this sh*tshow a soccer mom wants to hear about and explain to her kids,” one Republican consultant told the website. “Payoffs and porn stars and affairs and indictments and all this stuff doesn’t Make America Great Again in the suburbs.”
Democrats have been attacking their opponents for a "culture of corruption," and GOP strategists are concerned this week's developments will amplify that message.
“Suburban women aren’t going to put up with this sh*t,” another Republican strategist told Politico.