The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee isn’t winning over its own base with its latest bid to draw support.
The DCCC sent an email out Wednesday asking for votes on various stickers, according to Twitter user @maxwelltani, who tweeted out a picture of the email.
“It’s been a whirlwind of a year, but you’ve been with us every step of the way,” the email reads. “So we want to say thank you with a new sticker! Which one should we print? Help us choose the winner!” Voting ends Thursday at midnight, according to the email.
it's very real, just arrived in my inbox pic.twitter.com/FKJmwHXR83
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) July 5, 2017
A pretty benign contest — organizations hold voting events like this all the time. But what many on Twitter are finding hilarious are the slogans on the stickers being voted on. One reads: “Democrats 2018. I mean, have you seen the other guys?” Another: “Make Congress blue again,” in what could be interpreted as a riff on Donald Trump’s campaign slogan.
A representative from the DCCC was not immediately available when TheWrap reached out for clarification on the voting contest.
Several on Twitter are finding the slogans on the stickers the opposite of inspirational. One user thought that the sticker reading, “She persisted, we resisted,” could easily be misconstrued. Another said, “none of the above. everyone at the dccc should go to mcdonalds and switch places with the workers there.”
Here are some more bewildered reactions.
So these are real. Best-case scenario at this point is that in 2024 Mike Pence turns the entire country into a giant Evangelical Hell House. pic.twitter.com/7clX7iKdGY
— Anthony Crupi (@crupicrupicrupi) July 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/882670445023166466
https://twitter.com/stephgrimes/status/882680005985173504
When "make congress blue again" is the best you've got, go back to the drawing board
— Lyndsay with a ‘y’ (@ElbyLebster) July 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/smithzac/status/882675372994682880
https://twitter.com/BernieUpstateNY/status/882681053307174914
All of these are bad, and the person who came up with them should be fired.
— 🍥 jeph 🍥「リズミック」💛🤍💜🖤 (@Rhythmik) July 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/Canada4Bernie/status/882681986355167233
https://twitter.com/DMor315/status/882675469719658496
Hey @dccc I made some more stickers you can use if you want pic.twitter.com/VpNmcySno5
— @ahoylemon@mastodon.social (@AhoyLemon) July 5, 2017
Seriously @dccc those stickers are terrible.
— Bill Smiley (@neokefka_99) July 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/Bullneck/status/882680454553501696
https://twitter.com/timothypmurphy/status/882679799919112193
what the hell are liberals doing? between Justin with his socks, Macron as Jupiter, and DCCC with stickers. they're lost in the wasteland
— whit (@whitwell76) July 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/jayonpolitics/status/882701305600290816