WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Breitbart News that the Democratic Party is “floundering” right now, and suffering from a severe case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Thune’s comments came during an exclusive on-camera sit-down interview in the U.S. Capitol this week. The interview was filmed in the Strom Thurmond Room in the U.S. Capitol building, which was named for the longtime late senator who until recently held the record for the longest filibuster speech on the U.S. Senate floor. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a Democrat, broke Thurmond’s record a few weeks ago on a filibuster, but it is unclear as of now why he was even filibustering. Asked about that and more broadly Democrats’ issues—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for instance held a recent press conference bashing President Donald Trump’s poll numbers, but then when asked about his own historically low polling brushed off polls as transitory—Thune diagnosed the Democrats’ problems as a party with an “identity” crisis.
“They are a hot mess,” Thune told Breitbart News. “They are really floundering right now and struggling to find an identity. I think that the base of their party demands complete fealty to their positions. Their positions are so far left of the American mainstream. They really have become a party of really ideologically woke positions. I think the Republican Party now, we kind of have the mantle of common sense. People are looking at us and saying, okay you at least don’t think biological boys ought to be competing against girls in girls’ sports and think that. There are just issues like that where the Democrats have staked out a position that makes them not a viable alternative for most Americans, and we just need to make sure we deliver on the things we committed to and promised the American people, and if we do that I think we can have a sustainable majority for a long time because I just think the Democrats are floundering.”
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