The DSCC released a new web ad, "Morally Tainted," Thursday highlighting how Republican senators and Senate candidates continue to support Donald Trump even as he continues his dangerous and inflammatory comments. The video asks the important question: "If they can’t stand up for Trump, how can they stand up for working families?"
The ad shows Trump making some of his most inflammatory comments, interspersed with pundits like former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough, saying that Republicans must start "calling [Trump] out," and journalist Cokie Roberts calling Republicans who refuse to confront him "morally tainted." Those morally tainted senators and Senate candidates include Kelly Ayotte (NH), Rob Portman (OH), Pat Toomey (PA), Mark Kirk (IL), Joe Heck (NV), John McCain (AZ), Ron Johnson (WI), Richard Burr (NC), and Roy Blunt (MO). The DSCC is calling them out on its "Party of Trump" website, which includes a quote from a Washington Post editorial:
"Republicans who vow to deny Garland a hearing and who pledge to support Donald Trump if he is their party’s nominee are saying: Democracy somehow requires that this vacancy on a non-majoritarian institution must be filled only after voters have had their say through the election of the next president. And constitutional values will be served if the vacancy is filled not by Garland but by someone chosen by President Trump, a stupendously uninformed dilettante who thinks judges 'sign' what he refers to as 'bills.' There is every reason to think that Trump understands none of the issues pertinent to the Supreme Court’s role in the American regime, and there is no reason to doubt that he would bring to the selection of justices what he brings to all matters—arrogance leavened by frivolousness."
And that was from March, before we even got to his insinuation that the "Second Amendment people" might do something about Hillary Clinton. It's only gotten worse since then, and still these senators find it more important to stick with their party than do the right thing for the country.
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