Red-state Democrats' new campaign strategy: run against Democrats.

You know the brand has a problem when the candidates stop wearing it. The Associated Press reports that Democrats trying to win Senate seats in states Trump carried are criticizing their own party: knocking Joe Biden, promising to work with President Trump on the border, swearing they'll never defund the police, and calling democratic socialists too extreme. The examples add up. In North Carolina, Roy Cooper runs ads saying he 'bucked his own party.' In Kansas, Adam Hamilton said at a debate that 'Immigration at the border under Biden was a disaster.' In Alaska, Mary Peltola is running on Second Amendment rights and the Willow oil project. In Iowa, Josh Turek highlights the hundreds of times he voted with Republicans. Iowa GOP nominee Zach Lahn's response: Democrats 'are realizing that their ideas don't sell' and 'have to pretend to be somebody they're not.' Here's the question for voters in those states: when the election is over, which caucus does that senator vote with to pick the majority leader? A candidate's ads matter less than the leadership vote on day one. Watch the voting record, not the commercials.