After Donald Trump won many of the Super Tuesday primary races, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus chose to focus his thoughts on the Democratic race.
Priebus, in a statement and in a series of tweets, turned his focus on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, saying Democrats aren’t as motivated to choose between those two as Republicans are to choose a candidate.
“While Democrats have seen turnout drop across the board, the record number of Republicans who have gone to the polls in each state shows the country is ready for change after eight years of failed leadership from President Obama,” Priebus said. “Democrats simply aren’t being energized by Hillary Clinton’s calculated campaign to maintain the status quo or Bernie Sanders’ fringe calls for a socialist ‘revolution.'”
He raised the email scandal Clinton is attempting to fend off and said Sanders’ campaign is out-fundraising the former first lady.
“The Democrat primary has become a race to the far left between an embattled front-runner facing an FBI investigation and a self-avowed socialist who continues to win states and outraise the Clinton machine,” Priebus added. “At the end of the day, Democrats are saddled with two fundamentally flawed candidates destined to fail in a general election and a message that isn’t resonating or in line with the majority of Americans.”
Priebus did not mention Trump or any of the other GOP candidates in his statement. In a series of tweets posted Tuesday night, Priebus again didn’t mention Trump or any of the other candidates.
As of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Trump had won eight states and Sen. Ted Cruz had won two. Minnesota and Alaska had yet to be called.
Meanwhile, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz mirrored Priebus in immediately taking shots at the other party instead of focusing on her own.
“As expected, tonight Donald Trump continued to tighten his grip on the Republican nomination. The GOP establishment can try to run away from him, but they were the architects of the ugly and divisive politics that are fueling his rise,” she said.
“Tonight’s results mean that a man who wavers on whether or not to disavow the KKK is one step closer to becoming the Republican Party’s standard-bearer. It’s hard to imagine an erratic and irrational demagogue like Donald Trump picking Supreme Court justices.”
Wasserman Schultz said the Republican Party is obsessed with tax cuts and has “alienated the vast majority of Americans.”
As of 10:30 p.m., Clinton had won six states and Sanders had won two. Massachusetts was still too close to call, and Minnesota and Colorado had yet to tally up their votes.
Wasserman Schultz said it’s clear to her Clinton or Sanders must be president.
“As results continue to come in from across the country, I want to congratulate both of our Democratic presidential candidates and their campaigns for their hard work engaging and energizing voters throughout the Super Tuesday states,” she said.
“Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have campaigned directly on the issues that matter most to the American people. They’ve offered smart and substantive visions for moving our country forward, and they continue to show that they have the right priorities and the temperament to serve as commander in chief.”
