Republican presidential candidates have lowered the quality of political discourse and debate in the U.S., and made it “offensive,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Friday.
“I think many people have made the observation that political debate in this country in this cycle is markedly different than the kind of race that has been run in recent presidential cycles, and some of that is due to the rhetoric that we’ve seen on the Republican side of the aisle,” Earnest said.
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