A Democratic lawmaker said Thursday that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s Frankenstein monster.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he has “little sympathy” for the “awkwardness” that his Republican colleagues may be experiencing after endorsing a candidate they have privately expressed serious concerns about, saying, “This is the monster they created. This is their Frankenstein.”
“They have been preaching a lot of the bile that we hear at the top of the ticket,” Schiff said at a Thursday discussion hosted by Politico at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, saying that Republican lawmakers sing “a different song when they are meeting us in private.”
“But they created this, they encouraged this, and now they are expressing shock that it has taken over their party?” Schiff said incredulously.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., lamented that although many Republicans are afraid to publicly criticize their party’s nominee because they are “frankly concerned about their own electoral survival,” he described “Never Trump” leader Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., as a “true conservative” for “courageously speaking out” against Trump.
“Literally, I think there are dozens of Republicans, at least in the Senate, who have expressed privately to me their grave concern that although [Trump] may have won their primaries, he does not reflect the values and traditions of their party,” Coons said.
