Eric Holder says call to 'kick' Republicans was a metaphor

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that when he told Democrats to “kick” Republicans earlier this month, he wasn’t advocating violence, but was using “kick” metaphorically to mean “oppose.”

“Well, I mean, what I was saying was really a metaphor for the notion that people who try to undermine our democracy should be opposed, and we, as Democrats, should be tough in that opposition,” Holder said on CNN Tuesday evening. “I wasn’t advocating violence, obviously.”