{"id":1004521,"date":"2016-06-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/dnc-chair-statement-on-john-mccains-divisive-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:20:29","slug":"dnc-chair-statement-on-john-mccains-divisive-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-john-mccains-divisive-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Statement on John McCain\u2019s Divisive Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&nbsp;&ndash; DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on Sen. John McCain&rsquo;s assertion that President Obama is &ldquo;directly responsible&rdquo; for the attacks in Orlando:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&ldquo;During the 2008 campaign, Sen. John McCain was quick to deny or dismiss the false, inflammatory and racist insinuations that some in his party aimed at then-Senator Barack Obama. Eight years later, the political courage that once earned McCain accolades and admiration from both sides of the aisle is nowhere to be found. By falling in line behind his party&rsquo;s presumptive nominee and parroting Trump&rsquo;s revolting insinuation that President Obama had something to do with the Orlando attacks, Sen. McCain has sent a clear signal: the Republican Party is Donald Trump&rsquo;s party. McCain&rsquo;s Trump-inspired rhetoric is further proof that we must elect Democrats up and down the ballot this November.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&nbsp;&ndash; DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on Sen. John McCain&rsquo;s assertion that President Obama is &ldquo;directly responsible&rdquo; for the attacks in Orlando: &nbsp; &ldquo;During the 2008 campaign, Sen. John McCain was quick to deny or dismiss the false, inflammatory and racist insinuations that some in his party aimed at then-Senator Barack <\/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-1004521","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Statement on John McCain\u2019s Divisive Rhetoric - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-john-mccains-divisive-rhetoric\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-16T22:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:20:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-john-mccains-divisive-rhetoric\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-john-mccains-divisive-rhetoric\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Statement on John McCain\u2019s Divisive Rhetoric - 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