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Flooding the zone (n.) is overwhelming the press and public with so many announcements, claims, or actions that none can be properly scrutinized.
The phrase began as a sports term for filling one area of the field with players.
Flooding the zone (n.) is a tactic both parties condemn and both have scheduled for Monday.
Steve Bannon told writer Michael Lewis in 2018: "The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with [expletive]."
Flooding the zone (n.) is politics turned into a group chat you mute because you'll never catch up.
Democrats including Hakeem Jeffries and Maxwell Frost later urged their own party to message more often to compete.
Flooding the zone (n.) is a press strategy that turns 'did you hear?' into 'which one?'
Flooding the zone (n.) is hiding a needle by delivering a fresh haystack every morning.
Trump signed 55 executive orders within 20 days of his second inauguration, a pace widely cited as flooding the zone.
Flooding the zone (n.) is winning the argument by making sure nobody has time to have it.
Flooding the zone (n.) is handing every fact-checker a teaspoon and pointing at the flood.