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Sen. Tom Cotton: CNN Rigs Democrat TV Debate to Protect âTheir Partyâ
CNN executives have rigged the July 30 Democratic debate to protect âtheir partyâ from a damaging repeat of the first debates, GOP Sen. Tom Cotton said Tuesday.
âCNN has said they are not going to have hand-raising or yes/no questions,â he told an event organized by the Center for Immigration Studies. âWell, thatâs because CNN ⌠understands that the party they represent was embarrassed by the hand-raising questions [in the first debate and] ⌠CNN does not want to do anything to hurt their party,â said the Arkansas Senator.
Cottonâs jibe was prompted by dramatic moments in the first and second TV debates for the Democrat candidates when nearly all were recorded raising their hands or voices to endorse the decriminalization of illegal migration and the award of free healthcare to illegal migrants.
Cottonâs answer came during a conversation about immigration policy and its damaging impact on ordinary Americansâ ability to earn a decent living.
âThe Democrats have lost their mind when it comes to immigration,â Cotton told host Mark Krikorian. He continued:
As the Democrats have become a party focused less on kitchen-table isues, [and] on what matters to working Arkansans, when they are worried about not having enough paycheck to make it to the end of the month, or worried about providing for their kidsâ braces or their education. They just have focused a lot more on questions about race, gender, sex, identity. For them, it has become [more] of a question about identity than a question about economics and security âŚ
You know, if youâre rich, if youâre a rich lobbyist and you live in Bethesda, or if you are a rich ex-president and you live in Chappaqua outside New York, you know, mass migration is a pretty good bargain for you.
Immigrants are not coming here to take your job as a lobbyist, or take your job giving $200,000 speeches, so you donât have to worry about the impact it has on your local economy. Youâre not sitting in an emergency room waiting to get healthcare, not being able to see a doctor, and in the meantime, it drives down the price of al the personal services that you depend on in fields where you have a lot of immigrants working, like childcare, and housecleaning, landscaping, manicures, and pedicures, [or] new fusion restaurants as well. So the story in Bethesda and Chappaqua and Los Angeles and Silicon Valley of mass migration, is a pretty unalloyed good. But if youâre in rural Arkansas or along the border in Texas or in manufacturing communities in the upper Midwest, it is the opposite story. But the Democratic Party largely represents those elites on the coast now. They donât represent a lot of hard-working communities across the country.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/30/ssen-tom-cotton-cnn-rigs-democrat-tv-debate-to-protect-their-party/