The president’s reelection campaign hopes to use some of the Democratic presidential candidates’ most liberal stances to draw new working-class and independent voters to Trump.
“You can sound like you’re agreeing without agreeing,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But when you’ve got your hand up and all the other side has to do is air a clip of it, it’s really tough to change your position and it’s guaranteed that Trump will take that position and apply it to everybody else on stage.”
“It helps motivate your base if you’re an incumbent because you can start to use that extreme fringe as a reflective surface to portray yourself as more centrist, more reasonable,” said Roger Fisk, a public relations expert and longtime aide to former President Barack Obama. Obama’s first chief of staff in the White House, Rahm Emanuel, implored the Democratic candidates to conduct themselves in the debates in a way that still ensures a path to victory in the general election. “Don’t fall into the traps that had many of us shaking our heads during the debates in Miami,”
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