{"id":1032057,"date":"2024-05-19T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1032057"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:54:33","slug":"sunday-scaries-trumps-maga-mouthpieces-attack-democracy-and-reproductive-freedom-while-whitewashing-trumps-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sunday-scaries-trumps-maga-mouthpieces-attack-democracy-and-reproductive-freedom-while-whitewashing-trumps-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scaries: Trump\u2019s MAGA Mouthpieces Attack Democracy and Reproductive Freedom While Whitewashing Trump\u2019s Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to Trump\u2019s surrogates refusing to commit to accepting election results, supporting extreme national abortion bans, and getting called out on their own past criticism of Trump\u2019s disgusting record, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarco Rubio, J.D. Vance, and Elise Stefanik each took to the airwaves today to remind the American people of Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA litmus test to be a part of his extreme GOP: refuse to commit to accepting the 2024 election results, support a national abortion ban, and bend over backward to praise Trump\u2019s disgusting record and rhetoric \u2013 even if you\u2019ve previously called him out for it. Week after week, Trump\u2019s MAGA minions continue to show that they will say and do anything to prove their ultra-MAGA loyalty, whether it\u2019s undermining our democracy, trying to rollback our basic rights, or whitewashing Trump\u2019s disgusting record to stay in his good graces.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marco Rubio refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, no matter who wins\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/video.snapstream.net\/Play\/3PVQzJMUbqnP84YYFpkjdh?accessToken=dqaejf1mh0svq\">Kristen Welker, Meet the Press<\/a>: \u201cWill you accept the election results of 2024, no matter what happens, senator?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubio: \u201cNo matter what happens? No, if it\u2019s an unfair election, I think it\u2019s gonna be contested\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2026before following it up by doubling down on his support for a national abortion ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/video.snapstream.net\/Play\/3PVQzJMUbqnP84YYFpkjdh?accessToken=dqaejf1mh0svq\">Kristen Welker, Meet the Press<\/a>: \u201cSenator, would you support a federal abortion ban?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubio: \u201cWell, I&#8217;m pro-life. To me this is not even a political issue. &#8230; When people talk about a federal abortion ban, what they&#8217;re talking about is the 15-week ban which Lindsey Graham sponsored and I have co-sponsored in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welker: \u201cYou support the six-week ban [in Florida]?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubio: \u201cI support any bill that protects unborn human life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J.D. Vance, attempting to hide his extremist stance on abortion, admits that \u201cpolitical reality\u201d is motivating his considerations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/video.snapstream.net\/Play\/5VHwa6dQlM9OEaZ9intPiW?accessToken=dm7hbldc9f6bd\">Margaret Brennan, Face the Nation<\/a>: \u201cYou said back in 2022 that a proposal to limit abortion access after 15 weeks of pregnancy was something you would support and some minimal national standard. What is the minimum national standard that you want the federal government to have on abortion?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vance: \u201cWell, look, Margaret, I think that first of all we have to acknowledge that political reality is, I think, really motivating a lot of these considerations. [&#8230;] Look, this is a tough issue. We need to let people debate and decide this very tough issue in this new environment\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brennan: \u201cRight, but you want a minimum federal standard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After clocking Trump as a \u201cwhack job\u201d who\u2019s \u201cinsulting to women\u201d in 2016, Elise Stefanik is now proud to be one of Trump\u2019s strongest allies \u2013 just don\u2019t ask her about her hypocrisy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/19\/stefanik-fox-host-clash-over-question-about-trump-00158793\">Politico<\/a>: \u201cWhen asked to clarify if she had ever called Trump insulting to women because of the \u2018Access Hollywood\u2019 tape, she blamed Democrats for leaking the tape in 2016 and doubled down on her support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018I have been proud to support him, it\u2019s a disgrace that you would take a New York Times article and just read negative quotes when I was the only Republican elected woman from the Northeast who voted for him in 2016 who was strongly supporting him, and I\u2019m proud to be one of his strongest allies today,\u2019 Stefanik said.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Trump\u2019s surrogates refusing to commit to accepting election results, supporting extreme national abortion bans, and getting called out on their own past criticism of Trump\u2019s disgusting record, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cMarco Rubio, J.D. Vance, and Elise Stefanik each took to the airwaves today to remind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunday Scaries: Trump\u2019s MAGA Mouthpieces Attack Democracy and Reproductive Freedom While Whitewashing Trump\u2019s Record - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sunday-scaries-trumps-maga-mouthpieces-attack-democracy-and-reproductive-freedom-while-whitewashing-trumps-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-19T19:52:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T19:54:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sunday-scaries-trumps-maga-mouthpieces-attack-democracy-and-reproductive-freedom-while-whitewashing-trumps-record\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sunday-scaries-trumps-maga-mouthpieces-attack-democracy-and-reproductive-freedom-while-whitewashing-trumps-record\/\",\"name\":\"Sunday Scaries: Trump\u2019s MAGA Mouthpieces Attack Democracy and Reproductive Freedom While Whitewashing Trump\u2019s Record - 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