Former DNC Chair and Democrat party leader Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) got testy during an interview when CNN Host John Berman pushed her on why Democrats are so unpopular and that voters compare her party to “slugs” and slow, passive sloths.
In a typical Democrat contortionist session, rather than answering the question or providing insight to help guide her party, she answered her own questions to spew talking points before indulging in a little Trump Derangement Syndrome.
John Berman: Our friends over at The New York Times are doing a series periodically looking into the Democratic Party and the challenges facing the Democrats as you try to run into the next election with some momentum. Shane Goldmacher, among others, is doing this research, and he talks about in an article over the weekend, a focus group led by a longtime Democratic researcher who asked some 250 people to describe or compare each party to an animal.
I want to read you what this found.
Republicans are seen as apex predators like lions, tigers, and sharks, beings that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortuses, slugs, or sloths, slow, plodding, passive. Then a little bit later, there was a respondee who said the Democrats are like deer in headlights.
How is it that you think that the Democratic Party has earned these descriptions?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: John, I’m not focused on the animals that some New York Times reporter compares the political parties to. My constituents are human beings, and the human beings that I represent are facing devastating health care cuts. The most significant health care cuts that have been ever handed down by any administration. Almost 14 million people will lose their Medicaid coverage, many hundreds of thousands more when you add the cuts to the Affordable Care Act. I represent the state that has the largest affordable care up for that every single year. These are folks who they can get their health care insurance because of the Affordable Care Act, because of Medicaid aid. And as someone who knows that when you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything, I know how vital that is.
So I’m focused on the humans I represent, not animal comparisons.
John Berman: I will tell you, it was the voters who were making the comparison with animals and this It was a focus group. It wasn’t the New York Times reporter coming up with these labels. This was a Democratic-led focus group to try to figure out perceptions of the parties.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: You said they were asked to compare the parties. So they were prompted to compare the parties to animals. That is ridiculous.
I’ve watched a lot of focus groups, and I know that the people that I represent want me fighting for the humans, the families that I represent. They don’t want Republicans transferring more and more wealth to many billionaires. They want to make sure that like what Democrats did under Joe Biden, under a Democratic majority, we ensured that we cut taxes for the middle class, folks who put that money right back into the economy when they buy refrigerators with the windfall and other kinds of the cover of our kinds of expenses.
We made sure that we would use prescription drug prices. We started to bring chip manufacturing back home. We passed the largest Infrastructure and Investment Act in history, and now those jobs we’re seeing come to fruition with rebuild our infrastructure. That’s what people want their government to do for them. They don’t want a lawless dictator of a president who hires anti-Semites and who then acts like he’s trying to fight to protect the Jewish community. The hypocrisy in this administration is appalling.
Watch:
SUPER AWKWARD: CNN host presses Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to respond to voters thoughts that the Democrat party is like a “deer in headlights” — She LASHES OUT instead of taking voters’ concerns seriously.
Did she not understand the question? pic.twitter.com/a0MLkK7KmI
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