Raw Story - 'Resents the idea': CNN analyst sees Trump bristle as Democratic attack strategy hits home

Adam Nichols
December 23, 2024 7:27AM ET

The Democratic Party has finally hit on an attack tactic which has found its target with Trump, a CNN analyst reported Monday.

“The gambit, a welcome opening for a party that struggled to fashion a convincing message in the election and that has been flailing ever since, seems to have worked," wrote Stephen Collinson.

The strategy — used by multiple Democrats over the past weekend — is to take aim at the president-elect’s sense of security by suggesting his ally, Elon Musk, is really pulling the strings in his administration.

They “are trying to tweak Trump’s vanity, mockingly suggesting that even after winning a second term, he is still not as powerful as the South Africa-born tech mogul whom he put in charge of slashing the size of government once the president-elect takes office,” Collinson wrote.

The scheme saw several Democratic Party representatives on the weekend TV shows, suggesting that Musk’s tweets on the spending deal — which many say killed the first bill proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson — showed who was really wielding power.

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