Scalise: President Trump Stands for Safety and Security as Democrats Sit on the Sidelines
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle to denounce the riots and violence in several cities across the country where local elected officials have shown an unwillingness to protect their own communities.
Whip Scalise also emphasized what's at stake if Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi continue to appease the radical left base of the Democrat Party, including their support of socialist policies and their appeasement of the violent, radical left.
On President Trump's efforts to keep Americans safe amidst the wave of violence in certain cities across the country:
"It continues to be disturbing when you see some of these mayors let their cities be overrun by mobs and people that want to just burn the city down. Again, that is not a peaceful protest despite what some in the media want to say. I mean, there's a way to protest and then there's people that just have no respect for others or for personal property. And the fact that some of these Democrat mayors continue to let their own cities be burned down, for goodness sake, I mean, this is something that President Trump doesn't tolerate. Joe Biden sits on the sidelines. They never addressed this at the Democrat convention last week, because they're afraid to stand up to these mobs. And look, I think most people are fed up with that. It's got to end and at least we've got a President who actually respects safety and security of people that want to just make sure that they can be safe in their own homes."
On what's at stake if the Democrat Party continues to appease their radical left base:
"Look, what you're seeing is the, you know, those of us that have been speaking, and the message in general has been just boldly embracing what conservatism is. You know, in the Ronald Reagan era of being proud to be a conservative and fighting for the values and beliefs of this country. Look, Melania Trump fled communism and socialism. God help us if [Democrats] try to bring that here. You know, she left a country like so many others did to come to a place where freedom is cherished, and there are some people that want to take those freedoms away. That's what this election is about in November. We've got to talk about it.
"The fact that they literally want to kill a baby who's born alive outside the womb and call it abortion, it's murder, Laura. And that's what the Born Alive Act is about, and by the way, almost every single Democrat in Congress has voted to allow that baby to be murdered. I mean, that's where their party is. They're no longer the party that wants abortion to be rare but legal, they literally want taxpayer funding of abortion on demand – including when the baby is born alive. Their party is not anything like your grandfather, or your father, or Joe Biden's Democrat Party."