Mehdi Hasan Tears Into Republicans for Accusing Harris and the Democrats of ‘Anti-Semitism’ Over VP Pick: ‘One of the Dumbest and Most Dangerous Lies’
Zeteo editor-in-chief and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan tore into the Republican claim that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was not selected as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate due to “anti-Semitism” on Tuesday, calling the suggestion “one of the dumbest and most dangerous lies.”
Asked for his thoughts on the claim that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was selected over Shapiro because the Democratic Party is plagued with “anti-Semitism,” Hasan said, “It’s one of the dumbest and most dangerous lies that we’ve heard from the Republicans in recent days.”
He continued:
Obviously the call went out on whatever right-wing WhatsApp group because they’re all doing it. Ari Fleischer, Newt Gingrich, Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, everyone’s been piling in with, “It’s anti-Semitic.” I think Erick Erickson said today there’s no Jews at the top of the Democratic Party allowed, to which Chuck Schumer responded, “News to me,” and it’s not just the Senate majority leader who is a Jewish Democrat, by the way. All ten Jewish senators in the United States Senate are Democrats. 24 of the 27 House members who are Jewish are Democrats. All four governors in America who are Jewish are Democrats. The Secretary of State, the Treasury Secretary, the Attorney General, the Homeland Security Secretary, and the Second Gentleman are all Jewish Democrats, so it’s a nonsense lie. That’s the Democratic Party’s record.
Hasan then urged viewers to “look at the Republican Party’s record” before calling former President Donald Trump “the most openly anti-Semitic presidential candidate we’ve seen in our lifetimes.”
Fox News’ The Five co-host Jessica Tarlov made a similar argument to Hasan on Tuesday, questioning why there were “no Jewish Republican senators” if the Democratic Party was anti-Semitic.
CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel also rejected the claim, citing sources who claimed Shapiro “sort of set the stage not to be picked as her number two” during meetings with Harris.
Watch above via CNN.
