SCOOP: Democrats pose with $1,395 sofa across the country in bizarre New York Magazine profile
Republicans are using a new profile of Democrats from across the country to argue that the Democratic Party remains hopelessly out of touch with voters.
New York Magazine decided to spotlight 25 “young(ish)” Democrats who aren’t household names, but who might play a pivotal role as the Democratic Party continues its identity crisis.
In a bizarre decision, however, the magazine put willing Democrats atop what appears to be what Republicans are calling a “thousand-dollar throne,” casting serious doubt on the Democrats’ ability to relate to average Americans; the magazine, for its part, calls the chair a “weathered tufted armchair”; the Washington Reporter found what looks like the same model with a sticker price of $1,395.
Republicans, on the flip side, calculated that working families will receive an average tax cut of almost that exact same amount.
The profile, which spotlights incumbents like Rep. Sara Jacobs (D., Calif.) who sat in a pickup truck bed along the southern border in the cherry red sofa, as well as failed politicians like Rebecca Cooke, who is running a third time against Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R., Wis.); in Cooke’s photoshoot, she is seated shoeless on the chair in a field.
The Democrats featured in the piece were nominated by a committee that included Hasan Piker, a left-wing Twitch streamer best known for falsely claiming that America “deserved” 9/11 and for apparently abusing his pet dog.
The Democrats’ “throne” photoshoot comes after a lengthy study from a nonprofit aligned with Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century found that working class voters in America view Democrats as “woke, weak and out-of-touch.”
“Nothing says standing with working families like perching on a thousand-dollar throne while the Democrat Party is fully embracing the radical socialist agenda of endless taxes, defunding law enforcement, and replacing common sense with chaos,” the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) Mike Marinella told the Reporter. “Democrats couldn’t be more out of touch.”
Others profiled in the piece include anti-Israel Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.), Rep. Greg Casar (D., Texas) — who made headlines when he skipped breakfast — and Graham Platner, who is running for Senate in Maine. Platner lost another senior staffer earlier this week as his Nazi tattoo scandal deepens.