.MaddowBlog: Tom Cotton is so opposed to Donald Trump’s First Step Act that the senator tried to blame it on Democrats. That didn’t go well.
Two years ago this month, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign confronted a good problem: It had so much money, the Republican operation hardly knew what to do with it all. It led the then-president and his team to buy Super Bowl ads.
And while that was unusual in its own right, what was even more surprising was the message of the commercials. Trump might’ve been expected to focus on one of his core issues, but instead, the incumbent’s Super Bowl ad“People talk about criminal justice reform,” the commercial said. “President Trump got it done.” In case anyone missed the commercial, the Republican promoted the ad on Twitter during the game — five times.
Two years and two weeks after the Super Bowl ad aired, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has settled on a new message: One of the few victories of the Trump era was Democrats’ fault. HuffPostSen. Tom Cotton on Wednesday accused Democrats of being insufficiently supportive of law enforcement, citing in part their backing of a prison reform bill President Donald Trump championed and signed into law in 2018.on the Senate floor yesterday, pointing at Democrats.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, visibly gobsmacked, reminded Cotton, “The Republicans were in the majority.... Donald Trump signed it into law!” The Illinois Democrat’s argument had the benefit of being true. It was Republican leaders who brought the legislation to the Senate floor in December 2018. It was also Republican leaders who
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