Many Republicans take positions that they don't act comfortable explaining, and as they dodge questions about them it allows Dems to pounce and assign them the GOP (evil) motives, as they do.
On the other side Dems always seem prepared with multiple talking points and multiple studies for their positions to show that they are right.
Exactly!
Supposedly, the New England Patriots require their players/staff/etc. to take public relations/public speaking courses so they DON’T commit verbal f***ups.
I suggested the same thing for ALL GOP candidates (local level all the way to POTUS) a few years ago. I had a knuckledragger try to argue with me that that wasn’t necessary. Ok. Did I mention that said knuckledragger’s state switched from GOP to RAT the last few years? A big reason why was that the GOPs running from that state were mostly idiots.
Being able to handle the media is either priority 1 or 1A for any politician. If that’s not understood, just go wait for “Old Country Buffet” to open...