{"id":2512652,"date":"2025-11-20T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-violence-of-the-dems-will-mark-congressional-midterms\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:00:32","slug":"the-violence-of-the-dems-will-mark-congressional-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-violence-of-the-dems-will-mark-congressional-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Violence Of The Dems Will Mark Congressional Midterms"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fthe-violence-of-the-dems-will-mark-congressional-midterms%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=2512652&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>The article discusses the contradictory stance of some Democratic politicians regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >political violence amid rising tensions<\/a> in U.S. politics. It begins with Rep. Eugene Vindman and Virginia Democrats condemning the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk, calling political violence &#8220;disturbing and unacceptable.&#8221; However,Vindman later endorsed Jay Jones,a Virginia attorney general candidate whose past messages fantasized about violence against Republicans,highlighting a tolerance for violent rhetoric within the party during election campaigns. <\/p>\n<p>Similar controversies have unfolded in other states. New Hampshire candidate Maura sullivan faced backlash for being associated with a protest featuring violent anti-Trump messaging, though her campaign denied condoning violence. Her opponent, Stefany shaheen, avoided condemning political violence when questioned. In Maine, Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner promoted armed resistance in past online posts and faced scrutiny over racist and violent remarks, yet received considerable support from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In New york, Democrat mike Sacks stirred controversy by using aggressive rhetoric toward political opponents, deviating from earlier messages of civility. Texas Democrat Jolanda Jones also encouraged &#8220;fighting ugly&#8221; during a campaign, reflecting an increasingly unfriendly tone among some left-leaning candidates.<\/p>\n<p>A recent NBC News poll shows that a majority of Americans across party lines believe extreme political rhetoric contributed to the assassination of Charlie kirk, signaling broad concern about the escalating political hostility. Critics argue that Democratic candidates&#8217; willingness to embrace or tolerate violent rhetoric in primaries risks alienating moderate voters in general elections. The article concludes by highlighting republican criticism that Democrats are normalizing dangerous political violence to appease their far-left base, perhaps damaging their electoral prospects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sept. 12, Rep. Eugene Vindman joined fellow Virginia congressional Democrats in condemning political violence. Said condemnation came two days after an assassin <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/11\/charlie-kirk-wasnt-just-assassinated-he-was-martyred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murdered conservative icon Charlie Kirk<\/a> while he was speaking at a free speech event in Utah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The rise in political violence &hellip; is disturbing and unacceptable,&rdquo; Vindman and the Democrat delegation <a href=\"https:\/\/vindman.house.gov\/2025\/09\/12\/vindman-joins-virginia-delegation-democrats-in-condemning-political-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;We are unified in our condemnation of these attacks. It is critical to the safety of all Americans and the health of our democracy that we are able to approach our political differences with respect and without resorting to violence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month later, though, Vindman was standing by his man &mdash; leftist Virginia attorney general candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/07\/every-senate-democrat-stands-by-jay-jones-after-he-fantasized-about-assassinating-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jay Jones<\/a>. Jones&rsquo; campaign hit a speed bump after his 2022 texts <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/03\/virginia-dem-ag-candidate-fantasized-about-assassinating-republican-wished-death-on-his-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fantasizing<\/a> about putting &ldquo;two bullets in the head&rdquo; of a former Virginia Republican House speaker and wishing gun violence on his children came to light. Vindman couldn&rsquo;t bring himself to condemn Jones&rsquo; violent rhetoric. In fact he re-endorsed him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re just a month out from Election Day in Virginia.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s time for our Commonwealth to send a message that we&rsquo;re tired of Republican chaos,&rdquo; the freshman congressman urged in a X post. &ldquo;VA, make a plan to vote &mdash; early if you can &mdash; for&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpanbergerForVA\">@SpanbergerForVA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenatorHashmi\">@SenatorHashmi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonesjay\">@jonesjay<\/a>, and Democrats up and down the ballot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>We&rsquo;re just a month out from Election Day in Virginia.  It&rsquo;s time for our Commonwealth to send a message that we&rsquo;re tired of Republican chaos.   <\/p>\n<p>VA, make a plan to vote &mdash; early if you can &mdash; for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpanbergerForVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpanbergerForVA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorHashmi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorHashmi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonesjay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jonesjay<\/a>,<br \/>and Democrats up and down the ballot.&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Eugene Vindman (@YVindman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YVindman\/status\/1974929029401903589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In other words, political violence is &ldquo;disturbing and unacceptable,&rdquo; but not disqualifying for a Democrat in the heat of a statewide attorney general&rsquo;s race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Democrats must have thought as much. They <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/04\/after-assassination-fantasies-virginia-elects-democrat-jay-jones-as-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overwhelmingly elected<\/a> Jones, and fellow liberals Abby Spanberger, governor, and Ghazala Hashmi, lieutenant governor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vindman, the former deep stater involved in the Democrats&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/25\/virginia-democrat-candidate-eugene-vindman-ducks-debate-against-republican-opponent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first bogus impeachment effort<\/a> against President Donald Trump, topped vulnerable Democrats in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bgov.com\/bloomberg-government-news\/virginia-freshman-tops-vulnerable-house-democrats-in-fundraising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fundraising<\/a> in the third quarter. But bags of money can&rsquo;t hide him and the other vulnerable liberals who have preached peaceful resistance while endorsing political violence.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;A Step Too Far&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In New Hampshire&rsquo;s open 1st Congressional District race, liberal Marine Corps veteran and former Obama administration staffer Maura Sullivan posed with a man holding a &ldquo;Veterans for Democracy&rdquo; sign at a &ldquo;No Kings&rdquo; protest in June. The sign also included the numbers &ldquo;86 47,&rdquo; radical left shorthand for &ldquo;86-ing&rdquo; (getting rid of, or killing) Trump, the 47th president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The way to support our veterans is to protect the values we fought for.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom from tyranny. Democracy. And a better life for all of us. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gtAQksosQY\">pic.twitter.com\/gtAQksosQY<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Maura C. Sullivan (@maurasullivan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maurasullivan\/status\/1934050175196029137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/19\/comey-tried-to-86-trumps-first-term-with-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted<\/a> on social media an image of seashells on a beach arranged to show &ldquo;86 47.&rdquo; He claims he had no idea what the expression &ldquo;to 86&rdquo; something or someone meant. Comey was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/former-fbi-director-james-comey-meets-secret-service-after-controversial-86-47-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questioned<\/a> by the U.S. Secret Service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan&rsquo;s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-call-out-congressional-candidates-86-47-message-call-political-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News that the New Hampshire candidate &ldquo;believes that there is absolutely no place for violence in our politics, regardless of party or affiliation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire Republicans didn&rsquo;t buy Sullivan&rsquo;s explanation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I knew Maura was cozying up with the extreme radical left, but this is a step too far. Calls for political violence like this have no place in New Hampshire,&rdquo; Granite State GOP chairman Jim MacEachern said in a statement to Fox News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Do You Condemn Political Violence?&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes, the silence is deafening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan&rsquo;s Democrat opponent, Stefany Shaheen, has had much to say about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/stefany-shaheen-frustrated-ceaseless-gun-090415855.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACPBkzz7u6VAbY4yziI3FOLdxoCe3cqeXN1W6mS7906VQQ2HZvAzB-f743xCOBXXxljoL9JCsvF48Es046vrP9KrtMLZwLFE5pUfAIMyI82CZzZIRhWDtHxeiPKQChzM550u_9nfJmqvUFPVxjBsgQ_5G7HtIFtynBm_QTtuqVDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;ceaseless gun violence&rdquo;<\/a> in pushing the left&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-bans-second-amendment-group-without-explanation\/\" title=\"Facebook Bans Second Amendment Group Without Explanation\">gun-control agenda<\/a>. But Shaheen, the daughter of Democrat New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, couldn&rsquo;t find the words to condemn political violence when asked last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope you have a great night,&rdquo; the junior Shaheen said in response to a questioner as she walked toward her car, Breitbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/06\/watch-democrat-candidate-for-congress-refuses-to-condemn-political-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The questioner persisted. &ldquo;Do you think the rhetoric needs to be toned down right now? Do you condemn political violence? That seems like a pretty simple question, ma&rsquo;am?&rdquo; Shaheen wouldn&rsquo;t respond.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She got into the passenger side of a vehicle and left in silence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Maine&rsquo;s Senate race, Democrat candidate Graham Platner has suggested that violence is a justifiable means to forwarding social change. Platner, who Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/maine-senate-candidate-promoted-violent-political-action-in-since-deleted-online-posts-00613037?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&amp;nname=politico-toplines&amp;nrid=c11a1ce1-d054-4834-a8ec-03f7746498ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes<\/a> as an &ldquo;insurgent Democratic candidate&rdquo; vying to take on longtime Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, has since deleted his comments posted on Reddit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the Marxist wrote, that if people &ldquo;expect to fight fascism without a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senate-candidate-who-smeared-white-voters-also-advised-reddit-socialists-on-rifles-to-use-against-fascism\/\" title=\"Dem Senate Candidate Who Smeared White Voters Also Advised Reddit Socialists on Rifles to Use Against &#039;Fascism&#039;\">good semi-automatic rifle<\/a>, they ought to do some reading of history,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/16\/politics\/kfile-graham-platner-maine-senate-candidate-deleted-reddit-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to CNN, which broke the story. &ldquo;[A]n armed working class is a requirement for economic justice,&rdquo; opined Platner, who described himself at the time as a &ldquo;communist&rdquo; and expressed a loathing for all police officers. The posts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/maine-senate-candidate-promoted-violent-political-action-in-since-deleted-online-posts-00613037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> Politico, were deleted three months before Platner launched his Senate campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Scoop: Graham Platner once suggested in online posts that violence is a necessary means to achieving political change. <\/p>\n<p>If people &ldquo;expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history,&rdquo; he wrote in one since-deleted post. In&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Wren (@adamwren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamwren\/status\/1978996072983707994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Platner has had a lot of explaining to do in recent months. As the leftist Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/03\/graham-platner-democrat-senate-maine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> earlier this month, &ldquo;there has been a steady drip of reports featuring Platner&rsquo;s unearthed racist, sexist and homophobic online comments.&rdquo; His tattoo (now covered) on his chest closely resembling a Nazi symbol didn&rsquo;t do him any favors. Still, many national and state Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/mainemorningstar.com\/2025\/10\/23\/polling-and-sizable-crowd-signal-support-for-platner-remains-despite-controversies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rallied around<\/a> the 41-year-old Platner, shru.gging off his violent comments as youthful indiscretions, even as they have skewered Republicans for much less.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;We Kick Them in the Teeth&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In the battle for New York&rsquo;s competitive 17th Congressional District, one Democrat candidate in a crowded field vying to unseat Republican incumbent Mike Lawler has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/17\/media\/hunter-biden-urges-dems-to-turn-the-temperature-up-calls-out-cnns-jake-tapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;turned up the temperature.<\/a>&rdquo; Leftist lawyer-turned-TV reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5240419-comedian-mike-sacks-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Sacks<\/a> last month called for defunding Immigration &amp; Customs Enforcement &mdash;&nbsp; in typical radical language.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When I said in Clarkstown that we should not fund ICE and must continue to protest them so long as they terrorize our neighbors, Lawler ran to Politico with the same old tired attacks to divide and distract us from the fascists he cheers on,&rdquo; Sacks<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1610087179646478\/posts\/1801410470514147\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> wrote<\/a> on the 17th District Facebook page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When they go low, we kick them in the teeth,&rdquo; Sacks added, after calling Trump adviser Stephen Miller a &ldquo;fascist.&rdquo;&nbsp; Sacks later said he was just speaking figuratively. His <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeSacksEsq?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign slogan<\/a> seems to be that he&rsquo;s running for Congress in part to &ldquo;Unf*ck Our Country,&rdquo; a similar thought for a lot of Trump voters little more than a year ago after four disastrous years of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I have no issue calling out political violence and think it&rsquo;s abhorrent &ndash; I&rsquo;ve always been consistent with that.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Democrats running in NY-17 don&rsquo;t feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Why are they silent when one of their colleagues is demanding that my teeth get kicked in?<\/p>\n<p>How&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ITheEaudjc\">https:\/\/t.co\/ITheEaudjc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawler4ny\/status\/1980677171963134269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sacks&rsquo; hostile turn of phrase is a violent twist on Michelle Obama&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/25\/politics\/michelle-obama-dnc-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">positive mantra,<\/a> &ldquo;When they go low, we go high,&rdquo; an aphorism the imperious former first lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/21\/michelle-obama-dnc-speech-chicago-2024-00175324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has given up on<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jolanda Jones, a Texas Democrat state representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/houston\/2025\/11\/04\/534853\/houston-election-results-congress-district-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defeated earlier this month<\/a> in a special election for the 18th Congressional District seat, took Obama&rsquo;s high road to the gutter during the campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If they go low, I&rsquo;m going to the gutter,&rdquo; Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/10\/21\/democrats-primary-congress-house-anger-candidates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Axios a couple of weeks before the election. She urged Democrats to &ldquo;fight ugly.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Desperate to Appease&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>It&rsquo;s getting all too ugly for many Americans.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 percent of registered voters surveyed in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/poll-majorities-parties-extreme-rhetoric-charlie-kirk-killing-rcna243560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News poll<\/a> believe &ldquo;extreme political rhetoric&rdquo; was a key contributor in Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s assassination. It&rsquo;s a rare point of agreement in a deeply politically divided America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Republicans blamed rhetoric by the widest margin, 73%-19%, but independents (53%-28%) and Democrats (54%-34%) were also much more likely to blame extreme political rhetoric as a factor than to discount it,&rdquo; the news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/poll-majorities-parties-extreme-rhetoric-charlie-kirk-killing-rcna243560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The violent rhetoric isn&rsquo;t isolated, it&rsquo;s becoming a feature in Democratic primaries, pressuring liberals to ratchet up the vitriol to fire up activists and voters. But they do so at their own peril in the general elections, potentially alienating more moderate swing voters in close races.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats are so desperate to appease their far-left base to squeeze through their messy primaries that they&rsquo;re now normalizing disgusting and dangerous political violence,&rdquo; Mike Marinella, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told The Federalist in an email. &ldquo;Voters are waking up to just how reckless and unfit this party has become.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 12, Rep. 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