USA : Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff says "Obama is an animal" americans call president
Wealthy businessman and Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff
has quickly established himself as the Donald Trump of Florida politics. He
began with a nativist ad
campaign that declared, Charles Lindberg-style, "America
first!" Now he's descending (if that's even possible) into rank Trumpian
insults:
"Unfortunately,
for seven and a half years this animal we call president, because he's an
animal, okay—seven and a half years, has surgically and with thought and very
smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country and dismantled the military
under not one, not two, but three secretary of defenses. And they've all
written books about it."
Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy immediately demanded
that Beruff apologize, but so did one of Beruff's Republican rivals,
Rep. David Jolly (whose campaign is apparently a backdoor audition for the role
of "reasonable Republican" on some cable news show). Beruff, like his
role model Trump, refused to do any such thing, and, in Rovian fashion, he
accused Murphy of "resort[ing] to name calling and the politics of
racial division." In fact, his campaign even pushed out the link to the
tracker video that caught the remarks above!
Evidently, Beruff believes that standing his ground
will only endear him further to GOP primary voters, and he's probably not
wrong. The general election, though, is an altogether different story.
source: thedailykos
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