{"id":1002601,"date":"2018-10-12T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002601"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:45","slug":"dnc-on-gops-silence-after-scott-wagners-violent-threat-to-governor-tom-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-gops-silence-after-scott-wagners-violent-threat-to-governor-tom-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on GOP\u2019s Silence After Scott Wagner\u2019s Violent Threat to Governor Tom Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">DNC Spokesperson Elizabeth Renda issued the following statement on the RNC\u2019s silence after Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Scott Wagner said that Governor Tom Wolf \u201cbetter put a catcher&#8217;s mask on your face, because I&#8217;m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOnce again, the Republican Party of Donald Trump has reached a new level of hypocrisy. Just 12 days after calling for \u2018a return to manners, a return to respect, and a return to the politics of decency,\u2019 Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Scott Wagner has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/capitol-notebook\/2018\/10\/scott_wagner_to_wolf_im_going.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened<\/a> to \u2018stomp all over\u2019 Governor Tom Wolf\u2019s face \u2018with golf spikes.\u2019 This disgusting comment comes less than 24 hours after the RNC released <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hlMIyae9-ZU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an ad<\/a> accusing Democrats of being \u2018unhinged.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis morning, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel even said in a Fox and Friends interview that Democrats \u2018should know that words matter;\u2019 called for Democratic leaders to denounce protesters; and blamed Democratic leaders for \u2018dangerous rhetoric,\u2019 even suggesting falsely that they were inciting deadly violence. Yet, today, after calling on Democrats to \u2018step up\u2019 and refute comments she objected to, McDaniel and the rest of the RNC are refusing to speak out against Scott Wagner\u2019s abhorrent, explicitly violent threat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Republican Party thinks the American people are blind to their blatant hypocrisy, but their silence in the face of these comments just hours after the release of their publicity stunt advertisement is outrageous. Come November, voters across the country will send a clear message about the values they\u2019ve seen the RNC embrace time and again &#8212; from today\u2019s deafening hypocritical silence to their decision to support alleged child molester Roy Moore\u2019s failed Senate bid to their embrace of policy after policy that puts the wealthy before working families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Spokesperson Elizabeth Renda issued the following statement on the RNC\u2019s silence after Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Scott Wagner said that Governor Tom Wolf \u201cbetter put a catcher&#8217;s mask on your face, because I&#8217;m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes\u201d: &nbsp; \u201cOnce again, the Republican Party of Donald Trump has reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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