{"id":527,"date":"2015-09-20T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/20\/dnc-chair-statement-on-republicans-comments-on-muslim-americans-today\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:22:21","slug":"dnc-chair-statement-on-republicans-comments-on-muslim-americans-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-republicans-comments-on-muslim-americans-today\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Statement on Republicans\u2019 Comments on Muslim-Americans Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement in response to GOP candidates&rsquo; comments on Muslim-Americans today:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In interviews today, not one, not two, not three, but four GOP candidates for president failed to clearly support the concept that a person&rsquo;s religious beliefs should not disqualify him or her from being president. It&rsquo;s hard to understand what&rsquo;s so difficult about supporting an American citizen&rsquo;s right to run for president, but unsurprisingly, this left Republicans scratching their heads. Of course a Muslim, or any other American citizen, can run for president, end of story. To think otherwise is not only harmful to our political process, but it elevates and validates discrimination in this country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3E49EymzSvU&amp;feature=youtu.be\">John Kasich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kyleblaine\/ben-carson-says-he-would-not-be-comfortable-with-a-muslim-pr\">Ben Carson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsehMuL68sQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Rand Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/donald-trump-some-muslims-very-severe-problem-n430521\">Donald Trump<\/a> should apologize and state clearly where they stand.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement in response to GOP candidates&rsquo; comments on Muslim-Americans today: &ldquo;In interviews today, not one, not two, not three, but four GOP candidates for president failed to clearly support the concept that a person&rsquo;s religious beliefs should not disqualify him or her from <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-527","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>DNC Chair Statement on Republicans\u2019 Comments on Muslim-Americans Today - 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\/dnc-chair-statement-on-republicans-comments-on-muslim-americans-today\/\" \/>\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=\"2015-09-20T20:09:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:22:21+00:00\" \/>\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\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-republicans-comments-on-muslim-americans-today\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-republicans-comments-on-muslim-americans-today\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Statement on Republicans\u2019 Comments on Muslim-Americans Today - 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