White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently stormed out of a press conference after a lengthy engagement with Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich regarding the messaging from the Democratic Party. The left has received substantial pushback for its alarming rhetoric that millions of Americans would lose rights and that former President Trump will rule as an authoritarian dictator.
Heinrich asked KJP, “I heard you earlier in the briefing talking about the pandemic’s role in the outcome of this election, and it sounds like that is being looked at internally as potentially one of the causes of this outcome, but Richie Torres Congressman tweeted, Donald Trump is no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, blacks Asians and Jews in the Democratic Party with absurdities like defund the police or from the sea or Latinx, is the is the administration campaign the Democratic Party Looking at the pandemic as the cause, rather than Is that easier to see in the mirror?”
Seemingly dodging the point of Heinrich’s question, KJP maintained that the current administration was committed to a peaceful transfer of power. “I think I’ve been in the President and the Vice President has been pretty clear and understanding that the American people have spoken and respecting that. I think we have tried to be incredibly respectful of what happened two nights ago, and we’re going to continue to do that, and I’m not going to speak to every person in the Democratic Party who has an opinion or thought.
Continuing, KJP said, “I’m just not it is not something that I’m going to do. I talked about the political toll on incumbent parties around the world as a data point, right, as something that we have seen pretty consistency, pretty consistently with g7 allies in this time. And obviously, one of the one of the things that occurred was the pandemic. It did. It caused disruption.”
However, Heinrich doubled down on her question, “This administration messaged to millions of Americans that they’re going to wake up day after the election if Trump won and have their rights stripped away, that democracy would crumble. And President said today, we’re going to be okay.”
KJP answered, “I’m going to square that in a way that hopefully makes sense, because I’ve been answering this question multiple times. The American people made the decision, there was an election two nights ago. There was and it was a free and fair election, and we respect the election process. We do, and Americans spoke, and so the job of the president is to make sure we respect that. The job of the president is to make sure that we have a peaceful transfer of power.
“Is the message to people who are fearful based on what the messaging was about, well,” the Fox News reporter tried to ask again. KJP fired back, “Now you’re just twisting everything around, and that’s really unfair. No, it is. No no. Jackie, it’s unfair because I’ve been standing here trying to be very respectful to what happened the last two nights, two nights ago, being respectful. I’ve been standing here saying that we respect the decision that the American people made, I’ve been standing here and saying that the President.”
Watch the press conference below:
After lengthy commentary along the same lines of her previous remarks, KJP concluded, “The President wants to do, and the Vice President, we want to make sure that we deliver for the American people, they deserve.” Before abruptly ending the press conference and walking away, KJP said, “They deserve a peaceful transfer of power and that’s what you’re going to see thanks everybody.”
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