Shelby Holliday: Rep. Omar, Tlaib, AOC Are a ‘Major Distraction’ for Dems

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HOLLIDAY: “It was a major distraction for them, certainly. Heard a lot of — not just Nancy Pelosi, but I heard a lot of Democratic candidates for president asked about this on the campaign trail. These are not questions they want to be answering at this point. Democrats wanted to focus on their big campaign finance reform bill this week. They didn’t have an opportunity to do that. It sucked all of the oxygen out of the room. But I also think, at the end of the day, when this bill passed — or when this resolution passed and it condemned all hate, that may have been a mistake because it allowed Congresswoman Omar to claim victory. She went out on Twitter and said, this is a great day. Islamophobia has been condemned. This was a great step. This was great progress. And at the end of the day, the resolution seemed to backfire a little bit because what they wanted to condemn was ultimately celebrated by the person who made those comments.”