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That’s the whole maneuver, and it deserves to be named plainly. A candidate votes no on a popular tax cut, derides it in public, watches it become law and prove popular, and then produces a campaign ad claiming she helped make it happen. The ad isn’t spin around the edges of her record.
It inverts the record. She’s campaigning on the accomplishment she tried to stop.
A candidate who genuinely championed no-tax-on-tips would promise to protect it in
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<h3>.@SusieLeeNV called tax relief for working Nevadans “crumbs.”</h3><p dir=”ltr” lang=”en”>.@SusieLeeNV called tax relief for working Nevadans “crumbs.”</p>
<p>Now she refuses to say whether she’d vote to repeal it, all while carrying a $2,000 Saint Laurent bag.</p>
<p>Nothing says “woman of the people” quite like sneering at your tax cut with two grand hanging off her shoulder. pic.twitter.com/XVncfz6X25</p>
<p>— Christian Martinez (@CDHMartinez) September 2, 2026</p>
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