The Mueller report is sure to be a prominent feature of the 2020 race. According to Steve Rabinowitz, founder and president of Bluelight Strategies, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., that’s a good thing for Democrats
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t’s been three weeks since Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William Barr.
Whatever the facts of the report, which was compiled over two years, it has now become mostly a political weapon wielded in the service of ideology. Democrats are still hinting at impeachment while demanding a full, unredacted version of the report. And Republicans, feeling vindicated by the report’s findings, are now painting the Democrats as obstructionists who use the levers of the federal government to punish political opponents.
In other words, the Mueller report is sure to be a prominent feature of the 2020 race. According to Steve Rabinowitz, founder and president of Bluelight Strategies, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., that’s a good thing for Democrats.
“I think [Democrats] are right to see how vulnerable Trump and the Republicans are right now,” he said. “[The report] is going to have a negative effect on Trump and the Republicans. The only question that remains is how big.”
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