Democratic candidates are drawing a direct line between the president and violent white supremacists
Some have gone beyond implying — former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, among other candidates, describe
“The climate, if we take advantage of it, is better than it’s ever been before,” Iowa state Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad said after the moment of silence in Clear Lake. “If we don’t take advantage of it, then we miss. And that means our children’s grandbabies will be holding rallies like this.” “To me, the tipping point was first of all Parkland, and you could see those results in the midterm, where those kids didn’t just march, they actually voted,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar told reporters here. “And then now, with these horrendous massacres in Dayton and El Paso.”
“There’s a whole generation that is now voting, voted last time, will vote in 2020, will caucus … who have had to live through this,” said Matt Sinovic, executive director of the progressive group Progress Iowa. In Iowa, where Trump beat Hillary Clinton by more than 9 percentage points in 2016, the Republican-controlled legislature this year passed a resolution seeking to add pro-gun language to the state constitution.“There’s a pretty heavy gun culture out here in Iowa, even among Democrats,” said Tom Courtney, a former Iowa state senator and now co-chairman of the Des Moines County Democrats.
Swett, who lost his congressional seat after voting to ban assault weapons in 1994, said last week that Democrats should continue to push for background checks and an assault weapons ban. But he said the Democratic presidential candidates so far “are shallow in their approach, just thinking that they’re going to fix this with a Band-Aid of an assault weapons ban and background checks is not going to do it.
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