Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill on the possibility of a government shutdown:
“We keep having these debates over a shutdown, it seems, every year or two,” said GOP strategist Dan Judy. “There is a chunk of the party that says, ‘This time will be different’. And it never works.”
Judy added that any move toward a shutdown might have some appeal to the president’s base. But he said its negative ramifications would be far more severe.
“It will certainly, I think, motivate the hardcore, hardcore base — but that is not the sort of voters that Republicans are going to need to prevail in 2020 and beyond,” he said.
“We are going to need the voters in the middle, as well as the more moderate voters in our own party, who first and foremost want the government to work.”
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