Debbie Wasserman Schultz launched a scurrilous attack on her DNC Co Chair Tulsi Gabbard during an interview today on CNN.
Dem infighting erupts on eve of first presidential debate
By Jesse Byrnes
Gabbard stood by her claims in a string of interviews Monday night and Tuesday, arguing she was being punished for vocally criticizing her party for only holding six debates.
“It's not surprising to me that she is saying things that aren't true,” she said of her House colleague Wasserman Schultz during an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports."
Rep. Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) fired back in her own round of interviews. Asked on the same MSNBC program whether she told Gabbard not to come to the debate, she replied, “that is simply not the case.”
“What we said, as my staff communicated to her staff, is that she needed to focus on the issues and make a commitment to do that, and in fact, she said yesterday in a news interview that if she came, she would be a distraction and so she chose not to come,” Wasserman Schultz said.
In a separate interview on CNN, Wasserman Schultz said Gabbard was focused on “process and on herself” instead of on the party’s “great candidates.”
Just what we didn't need on the day of the one debate best timed to attract viewers. More accusations by Debbie Wasserman Schultz in defense of her poor decisions to limit the number of Democratic Debates to six, and
schedule them at the worst possible times to attract viewers.