Warnock accuses Republicans of trying to 'score political points' over Laken Riley's death

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/10/24 10:04 AM ET


Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday accused Republicans of using the death of 22-year-old Laken Riley to “score cheap political” points after she was invoked during President Biden’s State of the Union address.

“I can tell you as a pastor who has done hundreds of eulogies, and presided over all kinds of funerals, there is no grief worse than when nature is tragically reversed and rather than the children burying the parents, the parents have to bury the children.

And so it’s unfortunate that in this moment of grief, there are those who are trying to score cheap political points,” Warnock said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“And the fact that they are those who walked away from this bipartisan legislation or at least a chance to debate it and now they’re trying to score political points in the wake of a young woman’s death. That is craven politics at its worst. it’s what turns people away from politics. And I think we can do much better than that. We can secure the border, and we can make sure that we are doing everything we can to make sure our children are safe,” Warnock continued.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4522238-warnock-republicans-laken-rileys-death/

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Empty-G waving the bloody shirt. nt

[Chrisdutch]

2. Weaponizing Laken's death

There's more to this story than has been told by our "liberal" media. The accused killer was a Venezuelan who bypassed being placed in asylum when he arrived in this country during, wait for it, the Trump administration.

[SunSeeker]

6. The AP says the killer entered the US in 2022.

https://apnews.com/article/laken-riley-university-georgia-death-nursing-student-a88e92600ab4dcce1a88e121b7b9c722

[Barry Markson]

3. Saul Alinsky quoted Winston Churchill and Rahm Emanuel repeated

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”

Apparently the magats can read too.

Some of them ain't stupid.
That's dangerous.

[liberal N proud]

4. When you see people posting it to FB who never care about other murders

And they live a dozen states from the incident, you know where it’s coming from.

They jumped all over it to bolster the border crisis they have no intentions of dealing with.

[SunSeeker]

5. The best response to any mention of Laken Riley is that REPUBLICANS are the ones blocking immigration reform.

And they're doing it at Trump's specific request so that he can use immigration as an issue to help him in the 2024 election. That shows they don't give a shit about the "emergency" at the border nor any Laken Rileys in the world. This drama is all about helping Trump.

[BaronChocula]

7. This!

Thank you Rev.
We Dems are learning. Throw their own grenades back in their face.

[lark]

8. Rev. Warnock is a great representative for the Democratic party, so smart and caring!

Of course he is correct on this!