Retired Boston Red Sox pitcher and potential Massachusetts Senate candidate Curt Schilling asked on CNN Friday how people of the Jewish faith could morally support the Democratic Party.
“I would like to ask you something as a person who is practicing the Jewish faith and have since you were young,” Schilling began. “I don’t understand, maybe this is the amateur, nonpolitician in me, I don’t understand how people of Jewish faith can back the Democratic Party, which over the last 50 years have been so clearly anti-Israel.”
CNN host Jake Tapper said it might have something to do with the social programs they support. When Schilling said he wanted to “understand the reason behind some of those things,” Tapper cut the interview after his response.
The Massachusetts ballplayer has endorsed Donald Trump for president and said earlier in the interview that if he chooses to run for Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s seat in 2018, he would make sure his family was fully on board first.
