In a memo issued Jan. 19, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced the creation of its “Trump Legacy Project” in preparation for the 2022 midterm elections. Clearly worried that Trump has considerable influence among GOP legislators or future candidates, this DNC project is intended to serve as a clearinghouse of information on Trump’s “failures” and to provide Democratic candidates, political consultants, and journalists with key information leading into the midterm elections, which Democrats have to win to maintain control of the House and Senate.
Thus, the DNC memo proclaimed, “We will make sure that Trump is held responsible for his entire legacy of failure,” and pointed to “record unemployment, tax cuts for the rich and mismanagement of the COVID pandemic,” as evidence of such failures, USA Today reported Jan. 20. Since there are Republicans who will be happy to run in 2022 on what they see as Trump’s successful political platform, starting now, the Legacy Project will focus on smearing any such Republican candidates by connecting them to Trump, while also collecting information for his upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate.
The DNC also announced that going forward, it would also carefully monitor Trump’s political activities, lest he do anything really subversive like supporting specific Republican candidates for 2022.
