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Obama to Republicans: You fed the crazy
The president slammed the GOP at a Democratic fundraiser in swing-state Ohio
Obama to Republicans: You fed the crazy
President Obama's message to Republicans on their candidate Donald Trump? You built this.
"The problem is not all Republicans think the way that guy does," Obama told about 2,000 people at the Ohio Democratic Party's fundraising dinner in Columbus. "The problem is they’ve been riding this tiger for a long time. They’ve been feeding this base all kinds of crazy for years.”
The president also had tough words for Republicans, like Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and state Auditor Dave Yost, who recently rescinded their support for Trump after a video showed the GOP nominee bragging about kissing and groping women. Portman has a double-digit lead in polls over Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland
The dinner was just days after the 11-year-old video that showed Trump using vulgar language as he spoke to former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush. On Wednesday, multiple stories, including in the New York Times and People magazine, broke about women who said Trump had touched them inappropriately. The Trump campaign has denied the allegations and threatened to sue the Times.
"They don’t get credit for at the very last minute when finally the guy that they nominated and they endorsed and they supported is caught on tape saying things that no decent person would even think, much less say, much less brag about, much less laugh about or joke about, much less act on," Obama said. "You can't wait till that happens then say it's too much."
Republicans were less amused.
"That rhetoric won't work in our state, which re-elected the entire Republican statewide ticket by double digits in 2014," Ohio Republican Party spokeswoman Brittany Warner said.
Obama slammed Trump — who was speaking to a Cincinnati rally at the exact same time —for his rhetoric and actions toward women. But he reserved some of his harshest criticism for Republicans who knew better and didn't stop fringe parts of their party that fed on conspiracies like the allegation that Obama wasn't born in America.
"Don't act like this started with Donald Trump. He took it to a whole other level. I have to give him credit," Obama said.
Source :
Http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/13/obama-republicans-you-fed-crazy/92036616/
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