Dem Lawmaker Names GOP Tactic His Party Must Copy: 'Stakes Are Just Too High'

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said Sunday that Democrats “have to be willing to be as tough as Republicans” because there is too much at risk in the 2024 elections.

MSNBC’s Simone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele suggested changing former first lady Michelle Obama’s 2016 plea to counter GOP attacks with “when they go low, we go high” to “when they go low, you go toe to toe.”

Connolly agreed.

“It would be nice to go high,” he acknowledged. “But we’ll put that off for a little while. The stakes are just too high.”

Connolly suggested that Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge who has kicked the former president’s classified documents case down the road multiple times, is “what goes wrong when you put MAGA Republicans on the bench with no experience.”

“She’s willing to thwart justice for a partisan political purpose to protect Trump,” said Connolly, who suggested Democrats must take a page out of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) playbook by “ignoring every past statement and just using raw power” to push through the president’s agenda.

Watch the full discussion here: