'...more than a dozen GOP campaign operatives say the past few years have brought something new: actively courting the media’s scorn while avoiding anything that may be viewed as consorting with the enemy.'
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At this point in the political cycle six years ago, Rand Paul was on the cover of Time magazine. “The Most Interesting Man in Politics,” the headline said of the junior senator from Kentucky and 2016 presidential aspirant. He was on the cover of The New York Times Magazine too, billed as a “Major Threat” .
“I just don’t even see what the point is anymore,” said an adviser to one likely GOP presidential aspirant, who requested anonymity to discuss press strategy. “We know reporters always disagreed with the Republican Party, but it used to be you thought you could get a fair shake. Now every reporter, and every outlet, is just chasing resistance rage-clicks.”
But more important, Trump helped accelerate a long-term trend of educational polarization, as voters with college and postgraduate degrees have moved into the Democratic Party while non-college-educated voters migrated to the GOP. A college degree may have revealed nothing of your political ideology a generation ago, but today’s college graduates, especially from the kind of elite institutions that end up working in media, are overwhelmingly left of center.
In fact, sitting down with the mainstream press has come to be seen by Republican primary voters as consorting with the enemy, and approval by the enemy is the political kiss of death, as Haley found out during Carlson’s Iowa speech. Dave Carney, a longtime GOP strategist, said that, according to his team’s research, getting endorsed by a newspaper editorial board, even a local one, hurts Republicans in primaries rather than helps them.
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