Ex-GOP Congressman Torches Donald Trump With Brutal Labor Day Observation

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) on Monday highlighted what he described as the “remarkable contrast” of what 2024 presidential election rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump got up to on Labor Day.

Jolly, a fierce critic of Trump, talked to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace about the “optics” of the former president “sitting like little Richie Rich, or I guess old Richie Rich, at the golf club in Palm Beach that he owns, not that he’s a member of, that he owns” and “ringing his bell for Diet Coke.”

Vice President Harris, meanwhile, is “out there with raucous crowds of working-class voters across the country,” Jolly noted.

Harris on Monday campaigned with President Joe Biden at an event in Pittsburgh. Trump did not campaign.

The Harris campaign pounced on the contrast, too, saying it showed Trump “does not respect working people.”

“Donald Trump is ditching workers on Labor Day because he is an anti-worker, anti-union extremist who will sell out working families for his billionaire donors if he takes power,” said spokesperson Joseph Costello.