September 18, 2024

Wednesday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Dana Bash, Sunny Hostin, David Frum, Daniel McCarthy, and more.

Tone-Deaf

“I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.” —Hillary Clinton one day after the second assassination attempt on Trump

“We can’t go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world.” —Hillary Clinton

The BIG Lies

“[Ryan Wesley Routh] obviously had some anti-Trump posts. But that has nothing to do with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.” —CNN’s Dana Bash

“We don’t know that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months. … JD Vance is also the person who started the false rumors more than a week ago about Springfield, Ohio … that has led to bomb threats, school evacuations, city hall evacuations, and a feeling of terror. … There’s a complete double standard here.” —The Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell

“What is rhetoric, and what is fact? It is fine for you to say, ‘Donald Trump’s plan is not a conceptual plan. It’s Project 2025.’ That is not rhetoric. If you say something like, ‘Donald Trump started an insurrection,’ that is not rhetoric. That is just a fact.” —"The View’s" Sunny Hostin

“The difference: The upsetting things said by Trump and Vance are not true. The upsetting things said about Trump and Vance are true.” —The Atlantic’s David Frum

For the Record

“Routh wanted to be a man of action and was ready to kill for a cause. But if the cause of democracy in Ukraine was worth killing for, what about the safety of democracy right here in America? Routh took both literally and seriously Democrats and progressives who say Trump is a threat to America’s institutions and the rule of law itself.” —Daniel McCarthy

“What the Democratic Party and the mainstream media — but I repeat myself — are actually doing here is nothing other than mob-like emotional extortion. They are essentially holding the nation hostage by ratcheting up the temperature with one hand — framing Donald Trump and anyone who dares to vote for him as a threat to their democracy, their freedoms and their very lives — while victim-blaming Donald Trump when people predictably act on such hyperbolic propaganda.” —Ian Haworth

“Let me make one thing absolutely clear: You are never obligated to seek unity with those who call you Adolf Hitler, especially after surviving more assassination attempts than Kamala Harris has held press conferences.” —Ian Haworth

Political Futures

“Harris’ proposals and stances are so extreme that Democrats’ best defense is to deny they exist.” —Victor Joecks

“The Democrats oppose voter ID because they want there to be illegal votes. There’s no other reason.” —Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

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