Actor Jeff Daniels was unimpressed with the current Democratic candidates after their first CNN debate on Tuesday, suggesting they must nominate a candidate who can take President Trump head on and “punch him in the face” in order to defeat him in 2020.
Daniels began by expressing his concern that some voters would be able to look at the picture of a migrant father and his daughter after they had drowned while attempting to cross the border and still be able to vote for Trump.
“You tell me that you’re going to go to the voting booth and you’re going to go, ‘They shouldn’t have crossed the river.’ Now there are people out there who believe that. Go ahead. Vote for him. Do it,” Daniels said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“This is the second debate out of twenty? Jesus. You know, whittle it down, but we need somebody that can take this guy on, that can punch him in the face,” he added to a rousing applause from the audience.
Daniels has previously warned that Trump’s reelection would be “the end of democracy” in the United States.
His comments mark the second time this month someone has called for Democrats to punch Trump in the face. Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, who won a Montana seat during the 2018 midterms, said last week, “I don’t think, even in states where Donald Trump won big, that it does you any good running away from Donald Trump. I think you need to go back and punch him in the face. I mean the truth is this guy is bad for this country.”
The actor is currently staring in Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird as lawyer Atticus Finch.
