CNN contributor suggests Democrats should focus their criticism on Trump
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“So if the Democratic Party wants to win back the House or the Senate or the presidency, they need to turn their ire and their fire on Donald Trump and his supporters and not on each other,” Bedingfield added. “Otherwise, it’s going to go very badly for Democrats in November.”
Less than 72 hours after Trump survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, the call to concentrate all efforts on the former president led to condemnation from both sides of the aisle. CNN host Jake Tapper called Bedingfield’s alarming message “inappropriate,” while former Obama ethics czar Walter Shaub called it an “alarming descent into a banana republic,” adding, “We must reject this path and return to the rule of law.”
Top Republicans were similarly aghast. Sen. Ted Cruz called on Democrats to “put an end to the inflammatory rhetoric and violent actions targeting the president” to prevent further escalation, while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized the effort to incite political violence.
CNN contributor and former Biden White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said Monday that Democrats need to “turn their fire” on former President Donald Trump to win the election, just days after he survived an assassination attempt. Bedingfield immediately backtracked, but the Freudian slip was another example of the inflammatory rhetoric Democrats and left-wing corporate media deploy against Trump and his candidacy.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper played a recent clip from President Joe Biden’s sit-down interview with NBC’s Lester Holt in which Biden became angry that the media apparently won’t talk about the “18 to 28 lies” Trump told during the debate.
Anderson, noting that Biden’s team is receiving internal polling data suggesting Biden is doing poorly among voters and losing any potential chance of winning, asked Bedingfield how much longer this scenario for Democrats can continue.
“It shouldn’t go on much longer if Democrats want to win this election,” Bedingfield said. “Joe Biden became the nominee by the votes of voters who voted in the Democratic primary. He has said many, many times after having been questioned many times about this, that he’s not stepping down, and he is going to be the nominee.”
“At some point, Democrats have to decide that they want to try to win this election and turn their fire on Donald Trump. I think there is — I shouldn’t have said ‘turn their fire.’ I apologize. That was not the phrase that I meant. They need to turn their focus on Donald Trump,” Bedingfield said.
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It has been less than 72 hours since Trump avoided near-certain death by half an inch and a local former fire chief was brutally murdered while shielding his family from gunfire. It’s been less than 48 hours since Biden himself called for people to “lower the temperature” and “cool” “down” the rhetoric following the near assassination. But already, left-wing media and Democrats are returning to the inflammatory language they’ve used to describe Trump for years.
Biden told donors recently, according to Politico, that he’s “done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” Biden and other Democrats have repeatedly called Trump a “threat” the both “democracy” and “the very soul of this country.”
Biden and others have also called Trump a would-be “dictator” and repeatedly warned he could be the next Adolf Hitler.
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