red herring

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, told Salon that his own research suggests that noncitizen voting is a total red herring.

"The fun is to play into the red herrings," he says.

Can she push her own messaging and policy ideas to the fore when her sparring partner is renowned for quashing substantive discourse in a barrage of insults, lies and red herrings?

First, the red herring: the declaration by Hamas that it would not send a delegation to the meeting is unlikely to have a major impact.

A conservative group that’s suing to force the release of the recording called the argument a “red herring.”