Take a look at this New York Times puff piece on their state’s shape-shifting, Wall Street-friendly, Jesus-humping junior senator taking her presidential campaign to Iowa.
Ms. Gillibrand put emphasis on her upstate New York roots, bipartisanship and small-town political ancestry.
So her angle is that she’s not really a Democrat.
Unlike Senator Elizabeth Warren, another Democratic contender, who has mostly avoided mentioning Mr. Trump on the campaign trail, Ms. Gillibrand offered plenty of direct attacks on the president, saying he had brought a “darkness” on the nation, using words like “heartless,” “immoral,” “inhumane” and “beyond disgraceful,” and citing his “racist message.”
Analysis has shown that Democrats who won in the midterms did so by avoiding talking about Trump.
But almost as often as she mentioned her voting record against Mr. Trump’s agenda or appointments, Ms. Gillibrand cited her across-the-aisle work with Republicans, including how she bonded with Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, at Bible study, and name-dropping her alliance with Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican reviled by many Democrats, in her legislative battles on sexual assault in the military. “I really believe that I can bring this country together,” she said.
Is that the future you want for our country? One in which a supposed Democrat goes to Bible study and is eager to work with Republians? Yeah, me neither.