With Polls and Private Meetings, Republicans Craft Blunt Messaging to Paint Democrats as Extreme

Republican leaders are sharpening and poll-testing lines of attack that portray Democratic policies on health care, the environment and abortion as far outside the norm, in hopes of arming President Trump with hyperbolic sound bites — some of them false — asserting that Democrats would cause long waits for doctors or make killing babies after birth legal. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/democrats-republicans-2020.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share