The Sunday interview the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair gave to Fox News continues to cause big problems for Democratic Party candidates in high-profile races, with the exposure of the DSA’s extremist positions forcing the candidates to explain whether or not they agree.
As Legal Insurrection reported, DSA co-chair Megan Romer “confirmed nearly all of [the DSA’s positions] without qualification. The few she hedged, she hedged only on timing.”
For those who missed the interview, watch:
GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany (WI-07), who is the Trump-backed presumptive GOP nominee in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race, saw the exchange and proceeded to alert the state’s voters that the leading Democratic candidate in the primary, DSA-endorsed state Rep. Francesca Hong, agreed with the DSA’s stances on the issues:
Hong’s campaign responded by claiming she’d never said anything about abolishing the Senate. Interestingly, they confirmed her agreement with some of the other positions — but said they weren’t things she’d “pursue as governor.” They also tried to suggest the DSA didn’t hold some of the positions their co-chair said it did:
“Tom Tiffany is once again telling lies and inventing quotes, because he can’t run on his record. Rep. Hong has never called for abolishing the U.S. Senate. Tiffany cannot produce a single statement where she did, because it doesn’t exist. She has spoken about police and prison abolition in the past as an aspirational goal, but it is not her current position, and it’s not something she will pursue as governor. She does not support replacing the presidency with the Supreme Court. Eliminating national borders isn’t her position either, and it’s not even part of the official DSA platform. DSA is a membership organization, not a political party. Rep. Hong is not endorsed by DSA national, and doesn’t agree with everything in its national program,” Hong communications director Allison Geyer told Fox News Digital.
The problem here is that Tiffany had proof that Hong had indeed previously called for abolishing the Senate – and he didn’t have to look very far, finding a 2021 tweet from her where she did just that:
This is the tweet Hong was responding to at the time:
Not surprisingly, so-called “fact checkers” are refusing to do their jobs in fact-checking Hong because of course:
For the record, here’s how Hong’s campaign tried to play clean up after the revelation that she did, in fact, call for abolishing the Senate:
“The post is from February 13, 2021, the day the Senate acquitted Donald Trump for inciting January 6th,” the campaign said. “She quote tweeted an analysis of that vote showing the senators who voted to convict represented roughly 70 percent of the country. It was a frustrated reaction to that day. It is not her current position, and it is not something a governor has any role in. She’s running to lower costs, fund public schools, and make childcare affordable.”
“Not her current position.” Sure. Just like she doesn’t plan on “pursuing” abolishing prisons if elected governor. These people are confirming to us who they really are. And we should believe them.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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