Conservatives blasted Vice President Kamala Harris’ surprise trip to Tennessee Friday to meet with the expelled Democratic lawmakers — while appearing to snub the victims of the Nashville mass sho…
“She visits when 3 Dem legislators are kicked out or censured by Tennessee legislature. But she doesn’t visit when 3 Nine Year Old Children are murdered…” the “Hot Chick” star tweeted.
During her visit, Harris also delivered a fiery speech at the Fisk University chapel, in which she condemned Tennessee Republicans for stifling free speech by removing their opponents from the legislature. “And is that not what a democracy allows? A democracy says you don’t silence the people! You do not stifle the people!” she continued, raising her voice.
Representative Justin Jones embraces Rep. Gloria Johnson ahead of an address of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at Fisk Memorial Chapel on Friday.Critics, too, were quick to blast the emotional speech as hypocritical — noting the Democrats’ suppression of The Post’simmigration lawyer Matthew Kolken.
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