Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham and Ron DeSantis try to paint Harris, a centrist Democrat, as having far-left politics
Republicans took to the airwaves Sunday to criticize a surging Kamala Harris, calling the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a “dangerous liberal” as US conservatives’ lines of attack on the vice-president began to solidify.
In appearances across CNN and Fox News, senior Republican figures Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham and former presidential candidate Ron DeSantis each attempted to paint Harris – who is typically seen as a centrist Democrat – as having far-left politics.
Those remarks came after Trump sought to insult Harris at a rally on Friday night. The ex-president appeared to deliberately mispronounce Harris’s first name, claimed she is “the most incompetent, unpopular and far-left vice-president in American history” and stated: “She was a bum three weeks ago.”
Speaking to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Cotton, the US senator from Arkansas, said: “For four years things were good” during Trump’s presidency. He argued that after Joe Biden took the White House in 2020 with Harris as his running mate, “everything has gone to hell”.
These people were so broken by a black man becoming president. They may just have the vapors so hard it's like a jim jones convention across the country. We seriously need to invest in mental health in this country.
Democracy won't survive a Trump presidency. The christofascist ideology may not survive a Harris presidency, or at least remain as strong as it is today. I wish everyone that wants to live under authoritarianism would just move somewhere else. There are a lot of choices to choose from.
“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.”
Is the only response Graham gets for the rest of his life
Next she will be "Far Left Radical" I'll bet. The GOP is out of ideas and repeating themselves. 2016 was full of broken promises. This is a rerun of 2020 and they will lose
I mean for him? He's not exactly wrong. He's facing a lot of felony charges, including some RICO.
Everything has gone to hell for him. As it should. The rest of us? If Barely scraping by is the definition of going to hell, a large amount of us (not me personally, but my generation) has been scraping by since... At least 2007.