Democrats claim the attack on Paul Pelosi is the direct result of a nearly two-decades long Republican campaign to vilify the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
was not a ‘random act,’" said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn."It was the logical result of a Republican Party that has targeted the speaker and other prominent women in public life for over a decade now, and then gaslights us when we call out its danger."
Congressional Democrats are accusing Republicans of fomenting the violent assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband by making the House speaker a political villain. In the 1980s, Republicans criticized Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas as a tyrant and accused him of corruption over a lucrative book deal. A few years later, after the GOP landslide of 1994, Democrats painted GOP Speaker Newt Gingrich as a bully and conservative radical who didn't care about hurting working people by shutting down the government.
"You can’t say people saying, ‘Let’s fire Pelosi’ or ‘Let’s take back the House’ is saying, ‘Go do violence.’ It’s just unfair and I think we all need to recognize violence is up across the board," Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said during an appearance on"Fox News Sunday.
These attacks on Republicans have been cited as a reason why a crazed gunman shot GOP Whip Steve Scalise in 2017.
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