RNC spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said Thursday a “trend in the Democratic Party towards anti-American rhetoric” spotlights a widening cultural and political chasm.
Ms. McEnany told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer that voters should not interpret New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s remark on Wednesday that “America was never that great” as a statistical outlier. Instead, Ms. McEnany said they should view it in conjunction with commentary by fellow high-profile left-wing Sens. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
“You had, on top of the Cuomo remark, Bernie Sanders saying America is fundamentally ’immoral’ and wrong, Cory Booker saying America is ’savagely’ wrong,” she said during an “America’s Newsroom” appearance. “You had Elizabeth Warren saying our law enforcement is racist from front to back. We are seeing a trend in the Democratic Party towards anti-American rhetoric and we must reject it. That is a stunning remark from Andrew Cuomo.”
Mr. Cuomo told an audience Wednesday that America cannot claim “greatness” until “every America is fully engaged” and “every woman is making her full contribution.”
The comments were soon spotlighted by President Trump, who tweeted: “’WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT.’ Can you believe this is the Governor of the Highest Taxed State in the U.S., Andrew Cuomo, having a total meltdown.”
Mr. Cuomo’s office issued a clarification afterward saying that America “is great” but has not yet “reached its maximum potential.”
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“He doesn’t even conceptualize how wrong his statements are,” Ms. McEnany told Fox. “If he has presidential ambitions, then he just pretty much drowned those ambitions with that statement. We’re seeing with the Democratic Party, we used to be able to agree on basic precepts like ’we are a capitalist society,’ ’we are a great country,’ ’America is great.’ We used to be able to agree on that, but now from the Democratic debate stage come 2020 you are going to hear anti-America rhetoric. You’re going to hear anti-capitalist rhetoric, pro-socialist rhetoric. They are destroying the very fabric of our country with comments like this and we’re going to see it from a debate stage.”
“WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT.” Can you believe this is the Governor of the Highest Taxed State in the U.S., Andrew Cuomo, having a total meltdown!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2018
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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