CNN commentator Paul Begala took Rep. Nicole Malliotakis to task when she tried to pull the same red-baiting stunt we saw from Sen. Markwayne Mullin the previous day on Fox. As we already discussed here, Mullin tried to paint everyone who showed up for the No Kings protests as a bunch of commies because they found one of the hundreds of sponsors at one of the over 2700 protests across the country was the Communist Party of the United States.
Things didn’t go quite so well for Malliotakis, and Begala basically told her to keep it up and we’ll see how that works out for them in the midterm elections.
BEGALA: They said, oh, they’re all a bunch of redneck, toothless racists. Guess what? They won 63 seats the next midterm. Republicans came out and they said, people who go to these rallies are Hamas. Good God!
I’m not a rally guy. I’m not a protest guy. I went. You know who I saw? Barbara Comstock, a Republican member of Congress out there protesting Donald Trump. I saw… I didn’t see Antifa. I saw a lot of Aunt Ediths. I saw a lot of really nice veterans, cops, firefighters, small business people.
And when your party attacks those folks, all you’re doing is setting yourself up for a landslide. Believe me, I watched my party do it in 2009.
