The Real Threat
Quotes from the party of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
◦ Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
◦ Kamala Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump) poses.”
◦ Kamala Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
◦ Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
◦ Joe Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation.”
◦ Joe Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”
◦ Joe Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
◦ Joe Biden: “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
◦ Joe Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic… and that is a threat to this country.”
◦ Tim Walz: “Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. … Are they going to put peoples lives in danger? Yes.”
◦ Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”
◦ Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “[Trump) is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
◦ Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general — they are threats to us domestically.”
◦ Rep. Dan Goldman: “He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated.”
◦ Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”
◦ Top Harris surrogate Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
◦ Rep. Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
◦ Rep. Maxine Waters: “Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?”
◦ Rep. Maxine Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that (Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”
◦ Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”
◦ Rep. Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is al existential threat to Democracy.”
◦ Rep. Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
◦ Rep. Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-wing followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat [Trump] poses to American democracy.”
◦ Rep. Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Raul Grijalva: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
◦ Sen. Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Stacey Plaskett: Trump “needs to be shot.”
◦ Rep. Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”
◦ Rep. Gabe Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”
◦ Rep. Mike Levin: “Donald Trump is a threat to our nation, our freedom, and our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Eric Sorensen: “He is the greatest threat to law and order we have in our country.”
◦ Rep. Greg Landsman: “The threat is not over.”
◦ Rep. Pat Ryan: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
◦ Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”
◦ Former Harris-Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield: Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.”
◦ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “We must stop [Trump].”
◦ Rachel Vindman, wife of disgraced impeachment hoax ‘witness: “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”
◦ Rep. Mikie Sherrill: “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party … the attempts to divide, to enrage the population.”
◦ State Rep. Steven Woodrow (D-CO): “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”
◦ Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims…”