Senator Elizabeth Warren used a weekend appearance on a sympathetic cable platform to recycle election-conspiracy rhetoric and attack President Donald Trump just weeks before Americans head to the polls.
According to the Gateway Pundit, Warren joined MSNOWs The Weekend after co-anchor Eugene Daniels had already framed the discussion by labeling President Trump an election denier, a loaded term that Democrats and their media allies have deployed for years while ignoring their own history of contesting election results. Daniels introduced her by noting she serves as the Ranking Member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and sits on the Finance Committee, then immediately pivoted to a partisan narrative about the White House and the coming midterms.
Senator, thank you so much for coming, Daniels began, before asking about how the administration is talking about what they will and wont do during these elections, meeting with election deniers in the Oval Office, which I guess is not that weird, considering the President himself is an election denier.
Daniels then tried to inflame concerns about international oversight, adding, And more importantly, the international election monitors for the first time in over two decades, Trump saying theyre not invited. Whats your reaction? The question set Warren up to portray routine executive decisions as sinister, despite the fact that foreign monitors have no constitutional role in U.S. elections and are often used by the left to cast doubt on American sovereignty and state-level control of voting rules.
Warren seized the opportunity to paint President Trump as disengaged from voters economic concerns, asking rhetorically, Well, so dont you find it interesting that here we are in the last 24 days before the election, and what is Donald Trump doing? Is he getting out there trying to lower costs for families? She continued with a laundry list of talking points more reflective of Democrat failures than Trumps agenda, adding, Is he trying to shut down the war halfway around the world? Is he trying to help families out that are paying too much for gas or for groceries? Is he doing anything to say, Im on your side and trying to make this a country that works better for you? Nope.
From there, Warren escalated her rhetoric, accusing Trump of scheming to destabilize the vote rather than focusing on policy. What Donald Trump is out there doing is saying, what can I stir up? she claimed, before suggesting he is really trying to raise the specter of cheating and disruption so that Democrats dont vote, so that he thinks this is going to be his best chance to be able to keep Republicans in power in the House and the Senate and in other races around the country.
Yet even as she warned of supposed Republican manipulation, Warren admitted that voters are not easily fooled. And, you know, heres the thing. The American people are on to this. Thats why Donald Trump is so worried, she said, pivoting to the standard Democrat call to turn out their base. I worry about election interference, but I know that right now, our best safeguard against election interference is go vote and get everybody you can to go vote.
The segment, amplified by progressive media, looked less like sober analysis and more like preemptive excuse-making in case Democrats underperform in November. By casting Trump and Republicans as would-be saboteurs while urging supporters to go vote, Warren appeared to be laying the groundwork for blaming any Democrat losses not on their record on inflation, border security, or foreign policy, but on a narrative of interference that conveniently keeps their own base agitated and distrustful of any outcome that does not favor the left.
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