Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed former Vice President Kamala Harris over her rhetoric toward President Donald Trump, arguing that she failed to condemn political violence publicly following the assassination attempt on Trump.
“We cannot let this administration, that is the most corrupt, callous, and incompetent presidential administration we’ve ever seen — we cannot let them extinguish our spirit,” Harris said while at a Democratic fireside chat in Nevada.
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Concha reacted to the clip on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First on Friday and noted that Harris still has not made a statement on the April assassination attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
“That would take basic common decency, and Kamala Harris is showing she has no interest in that, instead just pouring kerosene on the fire,” Concha said.
“You would think that we would see some toning down on this sort of stuff, but no,” he continued.
Concha said Harris engaged in the same kind of rhetoric during the 2024 campaign after two assassination attempts on Trump.
“When you say those things over and over again, there’s enough crazies out there that say, ‘Oh, the threat that needs to be stopped? I guess that means shut the guy down completely,’ and that’s a whole bowl of wrong, but this is what Kamala Harris is engaging in,” Concha said.
Concha also pointed out that Harris talking in a swing state such as Nevada could signal she will run in the 2028 election.
“I think that she’s absolutely running, and I’m not sure very many Democrats are happy about that,” Concha said. He also noted it could be a good thing for Republican candidates, since “she’s run twice for president and there was no return on investment on either one of those runs in 2019 or 2024.”
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Concha said polling shows that the “more far-Left folks in that party are A-OK with Donald Trump being assassinated.”
“This is now the new Democratic Party, the one that embraces a permission slip to violence, and that’s where we are as a country, and it’s so, so sad,” Concha said.
