Speaking in the wake of the entertaining town hall hosted by CNN in which Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) got totally roasted by a college kid, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) went scorched earth on the fact that CNN had, in hosting a joint town hall with Bernie Sanders and AOC, effectively hosted America’s “first socialist town hall.”
As background, AOC and Bernie Sanders are both regarded by many on the conservative right as up and coming leaders of the Democratic Party, which has been seemingly been left adrift and leaderless with the total implosion of Kamala Harris on the campaign trail and the lack of anyone suitable to the party’s different factions that could take her place.
So, conservatives like Mike Johnson have gone scorched earth on AOC and Bernie, arguing that their noxious and radical, far-left economic beliefs are the sort of thing that represent the present Democratic Party, an argument that helps raise conservative ire and thus turnout to combat them.
Such is what he did when speaking to the nation in a press conference on Thursday, October 16, declaring that the town hall was “socialist” and that the radical Democrats involved in it have no desire to end the shutdown. He said, “CNN hosts the first socialist town hall, where Bernie Sanders and AOC said the quiet parts out loud. They don’t know what they want to end the shutdown.”
Continuing, the Speaker of the House declared that the leftists created a major mess and have refused to even consider how they might fix it to help get America out of this present jam, snapping, “They couldn’t provide a single viable solution for the mess that they themselves have gleefully created.”
He then further added that types like AOC and Bernie Sanders are currently the real leaders of the Democratic Party, despite their noxiousness and buffoonish intransigence, saying, “And by the way, those are the real leaders of the Democratic Party — AOC and Bernie. Good luck with that.”
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Posting on X about the shutdown and how it might finally end, Speaker Johnson said, “The Democrat Shutdown will continue until one of two things happens: 1️⃣ Chuck Schumer gets permission from Bernie Sanders, AOC, and his radical base to reopen it. Or… 2️⃣ Five reasonable Senate Democrats decide to do the RIGHT THING and vote with Senate Republicans on the House passed CLEAN CR and OPEN THE GOVERNMENT.”
Similarly, in another post on X, Speaker Johnson declared, “Chuck Schumer knows EXACTLY what he’s doing: he’s hurting the American people — and he knows it’s wrong. He said it HIMSELF back in March when he voted FOR the CR in this exact scenario. Now he’s completely reversed himself — DEMANDING $1.5 TRILLION in new spending, taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens, and cuts to rural hospitals. It’s a total sham.”