Beto: ‘He Makes Possible the Acts of Violence and Hatred that We’re Seeing Play out in This Country’

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O’ROURKE: “What does that to do that child’s conception of herself or what she's capable of in this country or whether she’s even in the right place to begin with? When a president calls Klansmen and Nazis and white supremacists very fine people, when he conflates the words of Representative Ilhan Omar, who happens to be a Muslim member of Congress, with the attacks on 9/11, stoking Islamophobia and hatred and yes, violence, you begin to be able to explain the rise in hate crimes every single one of the last three years. I’m making the case that the President of the United States of America right now does not just offend our ears or our sensibilities. He makes possible the acts of violence and hatred that we’re seeing play out in this country today. I want to make sure we don’t just tolerate and respect one another and out differences, but that we embrace them. That is how we become a stronger country and that's what I will reflect as your president.”