House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday for echoing the words of a man who has been charged with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
“This summer, after the first attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in more than a century, President Biden insisted that ‘we cannot allow this violence to be normalized,’” the statement said. “In September, after President Trump escaped yet another close call, Vice President Harris acknowledged that ‘we all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence.’”
The statement said that Biden’s and Harris’ words “have proven hollow” as Harris, as the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee, has “only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus.”
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