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DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIES FOR NOVEMBER

Morning Digest: The GOP is 

hitting Democrats for wanting 

to abolish ICE. Here's how to 

hit back.

By Staff

Daily Kos

18 July 2018

● AZ-Gov: Even though the Democrats won't choose their nominee to take on Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey until Aug. 28, Politico reports that the RGA is launching a $1 million ad campaign targeting two hopefuls, Arizona State University professor David Garcia and activist Kelly Fryer. So far at least, the RGA appears to be ignoring state Sen. Steve Farley, the third candidate in the contest.

Both spots try to argue that the Democrats want to abolish ICE and put Arizonans in danger, a theme we're almost certainly going to see a whole lot more of both here and in other races across the country. However, as we'll explain, Democrats have a good model to follow to push back and prevent Trump and his allies from caricaturing them this way.

​​Both the RGA's anti-Garcia and anti-Fryer ads are almost identical. The narrator in each case declares that even though ICE officers are guarding against gangs and keeping the country safe from drugs, as well as rescuing young girls from sex trafficking, the Democrat being attacked "and other radicals demand we abolish ICE." The only real difference between the two spots is that the anti-Garcia ad features a clip of him saying, "ICE is committing some historic atrocities," while there is no comparable footage of Fryer.

However, Fryer recently said at a debate that she has wanted to abolish ICE for years, adding that Trump's family detention policies won't end "until we dismantle ICE—and the racist, fear-based culture that led to its formation in 2003, allowed it to continue under Obama, and has given it horrific powers now under Trump." By contrast, Farley said he favors fixing the agency rather than scrapping it.

Garcia, who's decisively led in recent primary polling, has said the United States must "rebuild our immigration system top-to-bottom and start by replacing ICE with an immigration system that reflects our American values." Garcia, however, has argued that the issue is too complex to be reduced to a simple debate about whether or not to abolish ICE, saying, "It's a false choice between Trump's cruelty towards families and towards separating children and Ducey enabling that cruelty and this open borders discussion."

Of course, as these ads and about every other Trump tweet will tell you, the GOP very much wants to frame this election as a referendum between guarding the border or allowing drugs and crime to flourish. And while it's not clear why the RGA is airing ads against two of the Democratic candidates this far from the primary rather than just waiting to train their fire on whomever wins the nod in six weeks, it's very possible they're hoping to caricature them early.

Democrats who find themselves needing to push back against this type scurrilous attack—in other words, just about every Democrat this year—would do well to follow the example of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. In his bid for governor last year, Northam faced a barrage of racist Republican attack ads arguing that his election would lead to more gang violence by MS-13 (a group that has also become one of Trump's favorite boogymen), and that he was generally weak on crime. In the final weeks of the contest, Republican Ed Gillespie even took Northam's support for restoring voting rights to felons who had served their sentences and twisted it to claim Northam wanted to "restor[e] the rights of unrepentant sex offenders," which of course made it sound like he wanted to restore their right to engage in sex crimes.

Northam responded to the GOP's attempts to portray him as a pro-crime monster with a spot of his own where the narrator quickly dismissed Gillespie's many attacks as "false" and "absurd" and switched gears to remind viewers that Northam attended the prestigious Virginia Military Institute "and was an Army doctor for eight years," then went on to help pass "mandatory life sentences for violent sexual predators." Northam himself appeared in the final segment direct to camera, noting that he's a pediatrician and saying, "For Ed Gillespie to say I would tolerate anyone hurting a child is despicable." Northam ended up winning the election a few weeks later by a strong 54-45 margin.

While every state and candidate will be different, Northam's ad is a good guide for Democrats looking to respond to the type of attacks the RGA just launched in Arizona and that Republicans will certainly deploy around the nation. To begin with, Northam's campaign importantly did not repeat the GOP's charges against him, which would have immediately put him on the defensive and given those false allegations more exposure as he tried to refute them. Instead, the ad pushed back by reminding viewers about Northam's biography and work, with the candidate himself forcefully declaring that the idea he would tolerate anyone hurting a child "despicable."

Democrats will want to study this strategy so they can flip the script when Trump and his allies try to paint their disgust with the administration's family detention policies as dangerous.

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