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The funny thing is that they’re as surprised at this as they were in 2016 😆

Democrats Sound Alarm: Trump Is ‘Carpet-Bombing’ Us in Key Battlegrounds thedailybeast.com/democrats-soun…

Several Democratic National Committee members have a message to their organization’s top leadership: President Trump is crushing us.

Multiple DNC members said they have privately sounded alarms about the organization’s strategy heading into 2020, emphasizing what they view as Chairman @TomPerez’s inability to reach swing voters in Midwestern battleground states who voted for the president.

Jim Zogby, who co-chairs the DNC’s ethnic counsel, says he has been pushing Perez and other party leaders to expand its outreach to voters in the same areas that Trump successfully captured: OH, MI, PA, and—a Democratic sore spot in post-2016 politics—Wisconsin.

But that outreach to the committee has fallen on deaf ears.

“I am frustrated beyond belief at the sheer neglect of the constituencies I represent,” he added.

Zogby’s chief concern is that the Trump campaign is already reaching swing voters while the Democratic Party is overwhelmingly focused on expanding their existing base.

“There’s a general unease right now among operatives and others who believe the DNC is not doing enough to build out the infrastructure before the next election,” one DNC member said, who requested to speak anonymously about internal party conversations.

“There’s a deep concern that while we’re turned inwards, the Trump campaign is already out there talking to general election voters.”

"Donald Trump is in general election mode while we’re still in primary mode. We see it in Ohio,” David Pepper, who chairs the state’s Democratic Party said. “He’s absolutely carpet-bombing Ohio online. We’re doing our best to respond.”