Vice President Harris led a chorus of Democratic outrage towards Tennessee Republicans, making a surprise visit to greet the state Democratic lawmakers who were kicked out of their posts by their GOP colleagues for protesting in favor of gun control laws.
as well as charges of racism that Democrats believe could damage the GOP further among young and diverse voters.
“They have now made two people the world had not heard of into martyrs for a cause,” Erickson warned on Twitter. “They’ll become the face of a movement.” “The broader implications of what happened in Tennessee are profoundly important and I think that they will strike a nerve with Americans across the country,” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and the first Black person to hold that role.
“Now, you all heard that,” Pearson said afterward. “How many of you would want to be spoken to that way?” “The Democrats should build off this but the truth of the matter is the majority of Americans are increasingly not White, so I don’t know how long Republicans think they’re going to use this antiquated backwards racist dog whistle,” Brown said. “It has a time stamp.”Democrats flipped the red state of Georgia in 2020 in part by mobilizing Black voters and White suburban voters who were turned off by then-President Donald Trump’s incendiary language and positions on race.
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