GOP rattled by Trump rally

GOP rattled by Trump rally

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/453824-gop-rattled-by-trump-rally

Republican lawmakers are feeling rattled after a long week capped by a raucous presidential rally where thousands chanted “send her back” at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a Somali refugee who became a U.S. citizen and one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.

President Trump distanced himself from the chant on Thursday, saying it made him unhappy and that he disagreed with it.

But he also did not seek to tamp down the chant when it happened on Wednesday night, and the crowd was clearly responding to Trump’s attacks on Omar and three other minority congresswomen he earlier in the week had said should "go back" to their home counties.

Three of the women were born in the United States, and while Republicans have blasted their progressive politics, many were uncomfortable at best with Trump’s choice of words.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 and now an elder statesman of the Senate, warned Thursday that the chants in North Carolina were “offensive” and would likely hurt his party’s image.

“I found the chanting and the chants to be offensive. Very unfortunate for my party but also for our country,” Romney lamented to reporters.

Only a day before, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had tried to defuse the uproar over Trump’s weekend tweets saying the four Democratic lawmakers should go back to where they came from.

“Lower all this incendiary rhetoric. Everyone should do it," he said.

Other senators complained Trump’s controversial attacks and the media frenzy they caused has distracted from their efforts to highlight the strong economy and other issues.

Well at least something phases some of these loons.

What a mess this week has been.

They've finally come to terms that they're the Racist Party?

Wait until next week it's Mueller time lol.

Good, they should be.

Le sigh.

Can't you use a term that hurts their feelings less, but still accurate? Like, I don't know, "White People are Best" party?

See? It makes clear that they think white people are superior to everyone else, but the term "racist" although perfectly accurate and easier to say, isn't actually used and thus that ugliness is tip toed around.

Is that a sigh of acceptance?

So which one or two Republicans came out and maybe slightly conceded that what Trump did was bad?

Does it really matter? They'll be back to supporting him by the end of the weekend.

Trump distance himself from a chant that he himself used and inspired on Twitter, which he defends.

That kind of mental gymnastic ought to be in the Olympics.

Well in the House's censure of his comments, 4 republicans voted in favor. So that's... something?

Speaking on the thread though, Trump already backpedaled on his condemnation of the crowd. Gaslighting in full effect.

Yeah... About that...

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Damn, FOUR? Stop the presses man. Progress of a sort I suppose.

Who was rattled? These responses are sidesteps comments. They're all cowards trying not to upset their racist base.

Just remember that it wasn't that long ago when Republicans wouldn't go full racist and go against the crowd when they were showing their racism.

They don't like veterans who got caught, what can you say!?

Wow the left calling people racist, how original and unexpected of them...

If it walks like a duck.........and quacks like a duck...........

Why is Trump saying he didn't like the chants if people were just repeating what he said on his totally non racist tweet?

"The left"

More than two-thirds of those aware of the controversy, 68%, call Trump's tweets offensive.

Two-thirds of those surveyed, 65%, say that telling minority Americans to "go back where they came from" is a racist statement

Stay consistently wrong.

@zaryia: To be fair, 35 percent sounds like the precise size of the GOP base, give or take a few percent.