{"id":2573903,"date":"2026-02-26T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/discomfort-among-democrats-over-heckling-sarah-bedford\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:04:28","slug":"discomfort-among-democrats-over-heckling-sarah-bedford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/discomfort-among-democrats-over-heckling-sarah-bedford\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Discomfort&#8217; among Democrats over &#8216;heckling&#8217;: Sarah Bedford"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdiscomfort-among-democrats-over-heckling-sarah-bedford%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=2573903&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 Washington Examiner report by Sarah Bedford analyzes Democratic discomfort over fellow lawmakers\u2019 heckling of president Trump during his State of the Union address. It notes Trump\u2019s sharp remarks about Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and describes tensions within the Democratic ranks, including leadership concerns and calls from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to calm down to avoid fitting Trump\u2019s narrative of irrationality.Bedford suggests voters want stronger, more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-calls-on-pelosi-to-call-congress-back-into-session\/\" title=\"McCarthy ... on Pelosi to call Congress back into session\">decisive leadership<\/a> rather than obstruction, and that the party\u2019s strategy is unsettled as a possible Department of Homeland Security shutdown looms. While Republicans have used the moment in ads to capitalize on the scene, Democratic strategists view any national impact as limited, likely affecting only certain districts. The piece cites a CNN poll indicating that nearly two-thirds of State of the Union viewers approved of Trump\u2019s speech.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;Discomfort&rsquo; among Democrats over members &lsquo;heckling&rsquo; Trump&rsquo;s State of the Union: Sarah Bedford<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2516324\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> investigations editor Sarah Bedford said there is frustration within the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"288\">Democratic Party<\/a> over the &ldquo;unhinged way&rdquo; some members protested Tuesday&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/state-of-the-union\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"658\">State of the Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4470556\/these-people-are-crazy-six-takeaways-from-trumps-state-of-the-union\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> called out Reps. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ilhan-omar\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1223\">Ilhan Omar<\/a> (D-MN) and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rashida-tlaib\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1114\">Rashida Tlaib<\/a> (D-MI) on Wednesday for their heckling during his speech, suggesting they &ldquo;should either be <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4471896\/trump-calls-deranged-tlaib-omar-be-institutionalized-state-of-the-union-heckling\/\">institutionalized or deported<\/a>.&rdquo; Following this annual speech, Bedford said there is &ldquo;discomfort&rdquo; within Democratic circles over how some members appeared as Trump spoke at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4472433\/bill-and-hillary-clinton-to-sit-for-house-oversight-depositions-epstein-ties\/\">Bill and Hillary Clinton to sit for back-to-back House Oversight depositions over Epstein ties<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4471810\/michael-rulli-seeks-censure-al-green-state-union-disruption\/\">House Republican seeks Al Green censure over State of the Union disruption<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4471758\/trump-state-of-the-union-wish-list-odds-congress\/\">Trump State of the Union wish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-working-with-doj-and-treasury-in-war-on-fraud\/\" title=\"Vance working with DOJ and Treasury in &#039;war on fraud&#039;\">list faces long odds<\/a> in Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not something the Democratic congressional leadership wanted to see from their members, there was a sort of admonition from House Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"790\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> [D-NY]  for just everyone to cool it, don&rsquo;t make us look dumb, and it feeds into the narrative that Donald Trump has about congressional Democrats when he stood there at the podium and called them crazy and said they&rsquo;re impossible to work with and they&rsquo;re irrational,&rdquo; Bedford said on the <em>Hugh Hewitt Show<\/em>, guest-hosted by Kurt Schlichter.<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tMralRAuls?si=7xRQUFF71htsTJ7o&amp;start=5262\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Then in some ways, a few of them sort of proved Donald Trump right by screaming at him and refusing to stand for the notion that the government should support American citizens over illegal immigrants,&rdquo; Bedford said. &ldquo;They sort of played right into Donald Trump&rsquo;s trap, so optically, it wasn&rsquo;t a very good night for Democrats.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bedford asked if former House Speaker <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4470732\/trump-pelosi-stock-trading-congress-state-of-the-union\/\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-CA) would have allowed this &ldquo;nonsense&rdquo; to take place in her party. She added that Democrats &ldquo;don&rsquo;t have a leader in Congress or really anywhere,&rdquo; which is building frustration within the party&rsquo;s voter base.<\/p>\n<p>Bedford said Democrats are reading the frustration that the voter base wants the party to be &ldquo;more obstructionist&rdquo; to Trump&rsquo;s agenda, which is playing a role in the partial <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3083\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a> shutdown. However, this isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;necessarily&rdquo; what these voters want.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They just want to see some sort of strong leadership in Washington; they don&rsquo;t really have that right now,&rdquo; Bedford said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4469047\/trump-positive-response-state-of-the-union-cnn-poll\/\"><strong>NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF STATE OF THE UNION VIEWERS APPROVE OF TRUMP SPEECH: CNN POLL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>American Sovereignty launched an ad campaign on Thursday <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4472791\/republicans-roll-out-first-ad-democrats-not-standing-state-of-the-union\/\">highlighting a portion of the State of the Union<\/a>, showing Democrats sitting when Trump asks lawmakers to stand if they believe &ldquo;the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.&rdquo; The ad campaign comes as the Republican Party faces an uphill battle to keep control of the House of Representatives this November.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategists, however, are dismissing the possibility of the State of the Union <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4472209\/democrats-downplay-immigration-clash-gop-midterm-elections\/\">hurting the party&rsquo;s chances<\/a> in the midterm elections. Democratic strategist Jon Reinish argued any impact would likely be limited to individual districts rather than creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-shrug-being-on-record-picking-illegal-immigrants-over-americans\/\" title=\"... shrug being on record picking illegal immigrants over Americans\">broad national shift<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats uneasy over heckling during Trump&#8217;s SOTU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2573904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26056127120961-e1772113872394.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,8461,18485],"class_list":["post-2573903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-discomfort","tag-heckling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26056127120961-e1772113872394.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573903","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573907,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573903\/revisions\/2573907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}