{"id":5000,"date":"2026-06-06T05:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/democrat-candidates-bash-trump-but-fumble-on-policy-details\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:06:02","slug":"democrat-candidates-bash-trump-but-fumble-on-policy-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/democrat-candidates-bash-trump-but-fumble-on-policy-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Candidates Bash Trump But Fumble on Policy Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, Democrat lawmakers and hopefuls have deployed a familiar arsenal of labels against the President and his administration, routinely branding Trump a dictator, Nazi, fascist, and worse. Such rhetoric has become standard practice among party candidates. But when the spotlight turns to their own political platforms and records, several Democrats have struggled to respond.<\/p>\n<p>In New Jersey, Democratic congressional candidate <strong>Rebecca Bennett<\/strong> was asked whether people should stop attempting to assassinate the President, a question posed in light of multiple attempts on his life in recent years, including a recent incident at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner. Bennett offered no answer. She remained silent as a campaign staffer physically waved a sign in front of the questioner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRCC\/status\/2051764610642927851\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In New Hampshire, congressional Democrat <strong>Stefany Shaheen<\/strong> declined to condemn scandal-embroiled figure <strong>Graham Platner<\/strong> when pressed by reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Colorado congressional candidate <strong>Manny Rutinel<\/strong>, who is challenging Representative <strong>Gabe Evans<\/strong>, faced questions about his years of vegan activism and condemnation of animal agriculture. When asked about his moral position on eating meat, Rutinel did not respond. Instead, a staffer rushed toward the questioner and waved his hand in an apparent attempt to block the individual from filming or speaking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRCC\/status\/2061901517196529730\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Arizona&#8217;s Sixth Congressional District, Democrat <strong>Joanna Mendoza<\/strong> is vying to unseat Representative <strong>Juan Ciscomani<\/strong>. When questioned about her past endorsement of taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries and whether illegal immigrants should be prohibited from accessing such funding, Mendoza refused to answer. A campaign aide responded by waving a sign and singing, &#8220;I love Mendoza, Mendoza, Mendoza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRCC\/status\/2060436561565519976\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marinella<\/strong>, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, condemned the behavior in a statement, as reported by <em>Breitbart News<\/em>. He said that Democrat candidates across the country cannot answer basic questions without throwing a toddler temper tantrum, adding that voters see them as too weak and spineless to represent them in Congress and will withhold their trust at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Democrat Joanna Mendoza Uses Staffer To Shield Her From Answering About Her Transgender Policies\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-oM4LsW52nI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic congressional candidates nationwide frequently criticize President Trump but often struggle to answer questions about their own policy positions when pressed by voters and reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":4999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[5468,5467,790,196,657,5466,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-campaign-rhetoric","tag-congressional-candidates","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-jersey","tag-rebecca-bennett","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}