{"id":1540460,"date":"2022-07-05T22:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540460"},"modified":"2022-07-05T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:49:42","slug":"democrat-u-s-senate-candidate-backed-by-ocasio-cortez-on-the-founding-of-america-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-u-s-senate-candidate-backed-by-ocasio-cortez-on-the-founding-of-america-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat U.S. Senate Candidate, Backed By Ocasio-Cortez, On \u2018The Founding\u2019 Of America: \u2018Awful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-u-s-senate-candidate-backed-by-ocasio-cortez-on-the-founding-of-america-awful%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540460&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrat Wisconsin Lt. Governor and U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes referred to America\u2019s founding as \u201cawful\u201d in a resurfaced clip from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who was endorsed by far-Left Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), made the remarks in an August 2021 speech, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/aoc-backed-dem-history-trashing-america-called-us-founding-awful\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings were bad. Things were terrible,\u201d he said. \u201cThe founding of this nation? Awful. You know, but we are here now and we should commit ourselves to doing everything we can do to repair the harm because it still exists today \u2013 the harm, the damage \u2013 whether it was colonization, whether it was slavery, the impacts are felt today, they\u2019re going to continue to be felt unless we address it in a meaningful way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wisconsin Democrat Senate candidate Mandela Barnes says the founding of America was \u201cawful!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EgvIKYi9qH\">pic.twitter.com\/EgvIKYi9qH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1544310966669742081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who is running against Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), is the state\u2019s first black lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u2019 campaign claims that his remarks were nothing more than \u201ca condemnation of slavery\u201d and that any attempt to suggest otherwise was \u201ca sad GOP attempt to distract\u201d from the January 6, 2021, riot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Wisconsin Lt. Governor and U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes referred to America\u2019s founding as \u201cawful\u201d in a resurfaced clip from last year. Barnes, who was endorsed by far-Left Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), made the remarks in an August 2021 speech, according to Fox News. \u201cThings were bad. Things were terrible,\u201d he said. \u201cThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1540479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}