The America Rising committee monitors everything the candidates do, hoping the large field will work in Trump’s favorDemocrats are more than a year away from selecting their presidential nominee. The locus of the Republican effort to define the Democratic field in advance of 2020 is America Rising, a political action committee that has become a clearinghouse for GOP opposition research. In 2016, America Rising used similar discoveries to launch attacks on Hillary Clinton. The resulting coverage, said the aide, shows voters “just how far left” the Democrats are moving. In the 2012 Republican primary, for example, Romney was first savaged over his business record at Bain Capital by Newt Gingrich and groups allied with the former House speaker.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2019 04:52 UTC