Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) faced an unlikely foe as he tried to plant the seeds of the Democrats’ narrative about the Schumer shutdown: CNN. Of all people, host Dana Bash blew up Jeffries’s “GOP shut down the government’ line, which knocked the New York liberal off course in comical fashion.
Bash rightly noted that Democrats rejected 14 motions to reopen the government:
Hakeem Jeffries was left momentarily stunned on CNN after host Dana Bash fact-checked his claim in real time that Republicans “shut down” the government.
The House Minority Leader wasn’t expecting the pushback and it showed.
He got heated.
JEFFRIES: “Donald Trump and… pic.twitter.com/DnSy3Gywmc
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JEFFRIES: “Donald Trump and Republicans shut the government and refused to reopen it. Donald Trump has spent the last 35 days, more time on the golf course, more time talking to Hamas and more time talking to the Chinese Communist Party than to Democrats on Capitol Hill, who represent half the country.”