1. Avoiding the tacky way Trump did it, @JoeBiden should learn from Trump as to credit-claiming. @BarackObama NEVER got this- so Americans never really heard that the good shit they got came from Ds. Failure to credit claim & frame the economy positively comes from the same

2. old-school consultant mind set that doesn't understand that public opinion flows from the top-down, voters only know what you tell them, and thus, you create public opinion. This is what Rs do & is the reason that even after all of this shit show-including the fact that more

3. than 30 GOP senators believe that Americans should receive NO additional covid economic relief, polls continue to tell us that people trust Rs more on the economy than Ds. This is due to "issue ownership"- voters are defaulting to the party's historic advantage on the issue

4. and since no one is there telling them any different (bc of inept Dem messaging) they revert to the issue ownership opinion. Imagine this fall's cycle, with D's hitting the GOP on failing to vote on the Heroes Act, highlighting the various components of the bill and hammering

5 opponents for not voting yes (using the state/local funding to attack Rs for actually defunding the police). If Ds had framed the cycle as a referendum on McConnell and the GOP's extremism in Congress, credit claimed the elements of Cares THEY put in compared to what the GOP

6. contributed, and focused on framing for voters the importance of chamber control so that covid economic relief could pass, they'd have been a lot better off. Their ridiculous messaging, combined with not doing field, killed them down ballot.