Tom Cotton compares Portland protesters to ‘insurrectionists’ who started Civil War

By Mike Brest

Published July 21, 2020 2:26pm ET

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Tom Cotton compares Portland protesters to ‘insurrectionists’ who started Civil War — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May. 5, 2020. The panel is considering Ratcliffe's nomination for director of national intelligence. | (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Sen. Tom Cotton compared the protests in Portland, Oregon, to the battle that sparked the Civil War.

Cotton, a Republican representing Arkansas, argued in a Tuesday morning interview on Fox & Friends that the nightly violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers are similar to the “insurrectionists” who led South Carolina to secede from the Union.

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