Danica Roem is sick and tired of the Republican effort to make people afraid of her for being transgender.
The newly elected Virginia state Delegate was one of the surprise victories in 2017 for Democrats and a humiliating defeat for the GOP.
Rather than talk about the issues, Republicans focused on Roem’s gender to use hate and fear to defeat her.
But Roem persisted and won the day by focusing on the issues that people really care about, such as fixing Route 28, funding our schools, and making sure everyone has quality healthcare that is affordable.
Her opponent was supposed to be a lock to win the district. After all, a 13-term conservative incumbent is tough to beat. But the Trump-effect backfired spectacularly in Virginia as Republicans from the top of the ticket to the bottom tried using Trump’s sleazy tactics to win.
They failed, and Roem told them all about it on Twitter on Monday.
Since the election, I’ve repeatedly heard these Republican talking points about why they lost, basically making Democratic voters out to be too dumb to vote Republican and caring too much about identity politics. At risk of giving them good ideas, let me break this down. /1
— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
1) I spent 10 months detailing my plan to fix #Route28: how much it would cost ($300M), how to pay for it (reallocating 28-66 funds), what it would look like (replace traffic lights with overpasses) & how I would get it done (local+state). Y’all hit me on “transgenderism.” /2
— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
2) At the state level, y’all made a pediatrician who volunteers at a children’s hospice out to be a member of MS-13 and campaigned throughout the state on Confederate statues and fiscally reckless tax cuts your own state senators called BS. And you wonder why you lost? /3
— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
3) Here in Manassas, @carterforva and I talked relentlessly about jobs. Roads. Schools. Health care. Equality. I know this because Lee and I saw each other on the stump constantly. And y’all went after us for and “teaching transgenderism to kindergartners” and “socialism.” /4
— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
4) When you spend an entire year just trying to make people afraid of people in their community and you apply this asinine labels as if you’re trying to make people afraid of an ideology or an idea, then you’re neglecting the very basics of governing to divide our communities. /5
— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
5) Look at the BS the Democrats in PWC had to put up with from y’all this year. Racism. Xenophobia. Transphobia. When I went on offense in my TV ad, I had a first-person testimonial from someone in PWC who your policies left uninsured. You hit me for my band and my gender. /6
— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
6) Bottom line: Knock off the divisive BS and actually campaign on boring stuff like infrastructure because it’s the boring stuff that the people pay you with their tax dollars to work on so they don’t have to focus on it. That’s literally your job. Try doing it. /7
— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
One more thing: Stop believing your own headlines. I knew beyond a shred of doubt we would win this race when y’all actually, sincerely thought based on a POS robo poll that 27% of Dems wouldn’t vote for me if they knew I’m trans.
1) Wrong.
2) Stop attacking trans people. #NoH8— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) November 27, 2017
If Republicans are smart, they’ll ditch Trump’s divisive playbook and start focusing on the issues. That is if they actually have any real ideas.