Leftist media outlets like National Public Radio may not have forgotten entirely about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but it doesn’t enter their brains when “Republicans for Harris” compare Trump to an enemy in mortal combat. In this case, it’s Pelosi-Picked Panelist Adam Kinzinger.
In a “Republicans for Harris” booster story on Tuesday’s Morning Edition, NPR reporter Ben Giles touted how Kinzinger says America's democracy is under threat this fall: “Do we want our kids and our grandkids to be raised in a democracy that is as healthy as the one we were raised in or not? And I think I do.” Then it turns to talk of trench warfare:
BEN GILES: On a Zoom call to rally more Arizona Republicans to Harris' cause, Kinzinger acknowledged there's plenty to disagree with the vice president about when it comes to policy. But those concerns are secondary to what he called the imminent threat of a second Trump term in the White House.
ADAM KINZINGER: If I'm sitting in a trench and I have an enemy that's 5 meters away and I have an enemy that's 40 meters away, well, I'm going to focus all my attention on the guy that's 5 meters away from me. That's my threat. And that's what we're doing now is that threat to democracy. That 40 meters away are the things we disagree about. We can deal with that later.
Kinzinger, who was an Air Force pilot, is talking about shooting the enemy five meters away, not the 120 to 150 meters that was the Trump’s shooter's location.
But Giles moved right along to cooing over how the Republicans for Harris list in Arizona grew to a hundred: “In Arizona, the effort is growing by word of mouth. When the state coalition of Republicans for Harris launched more than two weeks ago, it boasted about 40 members. Membership doubled in about 48 hours, according to the Harris campaign, and now has about 100 Republicans backing the vice president.”
Kinzinger is scheduled to speak at the Democrat convention on the final night on Thursday.
