On Sunday’s This Week on ABC, both co-moderator Jonathan Karl and his panelists on the “PowerHouse Roundtable” tore into the Democrat Party congressional campaign arm: the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for running ads promoting Trump-backed candidates in GOP primaries. One panelist USA Today Washington Bureau chief Susan Page declared it both “risky” and “hypocritical.”
Karl moved to the Democrats’ election interference, switching gears from a different topic. He remarked: “Speaking of this question of credibility, I wanna Susan, get you to kinda help explain Democrats going in and putting millions of dollars in states, in races across the country to support candidates” that are like former President Donald Trump.
Turning to Page, Karl bemoaned how even liberal Never-Trump Republican Peter Meijer who was one of the ten Republicans to vote for Trump’s second impeachment is being targeted by the DCCC.
Page slammed the Dems claiming “it’s risky because sometimes the candidate you don’t expect to win turns out to be stronger than you think, and they win and then they’re in office.”
Continuing to take the DCCC to task, Page noted “it’s hypocritical because Democrats have been saying that election deniers threaten our very democracy,” adding that “Democrats sede the high ground on this.”
After reading a statement given by Democrat Congresswoman Kathleen Rice in which she called her party’s election meddling “unconscionable”, Karl agreed and noted how “They’re putting money behind candidates who in her words want to come to Washington and destroy our democracy.”
Fellow panelist and Democrat Congressman Ritchie Torres slammed his party’s misguided and anti-democratic strategy: “It’s embarrassingly hypocritical, we cannot credibly defend democracy and then prop up candidates who are an existential threat to the very democracy we’re defending. And in politics when you try to be too cute and clever, it often backfires.”
Torres went on to note how the DCCC “cannot guarantee the outcome of the general election and when you prop up a conspiracy theorist in a Republican primary, you run the risk of sending an extremist to the United States Congress, and that’s an egregious use of Democratic resources.”
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ABC’s This Week
31 July 2022
Eastern, 9:31:59JON KARL – Speaking of the question of credibility, Susan wants you to explain how Democrats went in and put millions in different races in America to support Trump Jr. Trump Jr., claiming the election was stolen and all that stuff. Now, you have the DCCC supporting Donald Trump’s Republican primary challenger.
SUSAN PAGES: It’s both risky and hypocritical. It’s risky because sometimes the candidate you don’t expect to win turns out to be stronger than you think, and they win and then they’re in office. And it’s hypocritical because Democrats have been saying that election deniers threaten our very democracy. So you’re going to go out and in effect campaign for an election denier because you made a political calculation that it might serve your interests. This is a sign that Democrats are taking the top spot in terms of this.
KARL This is Kathleen Rice, she said dirty tricks like this are part and parcel of political campaigns, but when you talk about putting money behind candidates who want to come to Washington and destroy our democracy, it’s not a political, dirty trick anymore, it’s unconscionable. And that’s what it is. These people are funding candidates that, in the words of one candidate, want to go to Washington to overthrow our democracy. This is what you think?
REP. RITCHIE TORRES – It is embarrassingly hypocritical. How can we credibly defend democracy, and then support candidates who pose a danger to that very democracy? Sometimes, politics is a game of too much cuteness and intelligence. The DCCC cannot be considered God. It cannot guarantee the outcome of the general election and when you prop up a conspiracy theorist in a Republican primary, you run the risk of sending an extremist to the United States Congress, and that’s an egregious use of Democratic resources.
KARL
TORRES: I hope under pressure because many members are dissatisfied.
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