No Kings protesters having 'fun' trolling Trump has GOP 'sweating bullets': MS NOW panel
MS NOW panelists laughed at the disconnect between the massive swell of enthusiasm for this weekend's No Kings protests and the awkward scenes from this week's CPAC gathering.
The network broadcast video all Saturday afternoon of charged-up protesters waving signs and rallying against President Donald Trump and his policies, and Republican-turned-Democratic attorney and congressional candidate George Conway told "The Weekend Primetime" said this weekend should be a wakeup call to GOP leaders.
"Oh, I think they're sweating bullets," Conway said. "I think they're very, very worried. I think they've been worried for quite some time. I remember reading a few weeks ago something in Axios, where Ted Cruz was telling Donald Trump that he was concerned that Trump was leading them over the edge and over the cliff in the fall elections, and that they'd be slaughtered in the fall elections, and Trump's response was 'F you,' and so I think they're scared."
"I think they realize Trump has no plan in Iran," Conway added. "He has no plan for anything. It's just all about him making things up as he goes along, and, you know, this whole all the TSA, the TSA debacle at [Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport] and other airports, that's not good. Republicans own that, and so I think that they have to be very, very scared. I think that's why the senate passed a bill to to fund TSA, the TSA, and and why the Senate voted for that housing bill in the last week or two. They realize that they have to they have to get their act together and make like they're doing something for the people, but Donald Trump won't let them."
Further compounding that issue is lagging enthusiasm on the GOP side, with attendance at this week's CPAC noticeably thinner than years past – indeed, not a single Trump bothered to show – and event organizer Matt Schlapp was caught in an awkward moment when the crowd cheered in favor of impeachment.
"Well, and so to that point, if they are not having as much fun as the protesters around the country seem to be having more fun, even amid all of the horror and chaos that's happening," added panelist Elise Jordan. "So how do Democrats channel that energy and turn it into success in the midterms?"
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