Are Democrats Finally Embracing Negative Partisanship?

The Majority Report crew discuss the reconciliation bill and Sam Seder asks why Congress isn't considering repealing the Trump tax cuts to pay for it. We watch a clip of Joe Biden positioning a vote to recall Gavin Newsom in California as a vote for every terrible policy that we saw play out under Donald Trump, and this distinct and negative partisanship might very well be the path to success for Democratic candidates in the 2022 midterms.

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Sam Seder: Here's a clip, and this is what I think needs to happen during the midterms, too. Here's a clip of Joe Biden out in California stumping for Gavin Newsom. We are living in an era of negative partisanship.

Joe Biden: Folks, I could go on, but here's the deal: I'm going to make this as simple as I can. You either keep Gavin Newsom as your governor or you'll get Donald Trump.
It's not a joke. Republican governor blocking progress on Covid-19. Was also anti-woman, anti-worker, climate-denier who doesn't believe in choice. The choice should be absolutely clear. Gavin Newsom — you have a governor who has the courage...
SS: I think that framing is going to be the framing that they should go after like every politician running in... not every one of, it's got to be a function of, but so many of these Republican politicians are going to be endorsed by Donald Trump, are going to be associated with the Trump wing. You basically say that you vote for this person, you might as well vote for Donald Trump. This is a very effective tool, and that is why you put out there the, "We're going to repeal the Trump tax cuts," even if you're not explicitly doing that. Even if there are some tax cuts you keep or whatever it is, you market it as "a vote for this is a vote against Donald Trump." That's been the most effective recipe for Democrats...
NK: ...at the national level. We lost congressional seats doing that. We lost I mean, we didn't, I mean we didn't do as well as we thought we were going to do. And i think that works when you're looking at when you're running an election where you're trying to get as many anti-Trump voters in Ohio Republicans to vote for for Joe Biden but that's not gonna... and it works in California when you're trying to get Orange County Republicans to understand that this is not some Orange County Republican, this is a Donald Trump Republican, absolutely, I understand that. But when you're running midterms and you're trying to win back some semblance of of Congress, that's not the message. I mean, listen, I live in Astoria — wait, this is a perfect example. I live in Astoria, right. Astoria is the most progressive district in the country, but it also had more Trump voters, more Trump voters than any other part of...
SS: Well no you're not going to get rid of these people, but the bottom line is they're being activated. Negative partisanship is the thing that's going to drive people out to vote. Such a big win for the Democrat. The problem in 2020 is that Trump was on the ballot and those people showed up to vote for Trump but they don't vote for his surrogates. They didn't in 2018. That was the story of 2018. Democrats ran even if it wasn't explicitly against the specter of Donald Trump and the only way that people had to go vote against Donald Trump were I should say more people who want to vote against Donald Trump showed up than people who wanted to vote for him. Because he wasn't even on the ballot, and that's still what happened to 2020.
NK: I think they're afraid,, honestly. i think they're afraid of juicing up the the Trump base in in districts where they're more vulnerable. There's not a lot of room to experiment in much of America. In parts of America, that message works, absolutely. In other parts, where the Democrats haven't operated in 30 years, it's you know, that's probably the only message they're going to have. I think it will be the message.
SS: I guess in West Virginia, you had Trump was the one place where he was popular and you've got a Democratic Senator, but everywhere else...