CNN Handed Cotton the Perfect Opportunity to Remind Viewers About Harris' Radical School Safety Position

Leah Barkoukis | September 09, 2024 8:00 AM

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday recalled one of Vice President Kamala Harris' radical positions when CNN’s Dana Bash pressed him during an interview on "State of the Union" over the tragic school shooting at Apalachee High School last week.

Referring to a misleading Associated Press headline that wrongly suggested GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance dismissed school shootings as a “fact of life,” Bash asked Cotton if he accepted that notion.

"No, absolutely not and JD Vance doesn't either," Cotton hit back, pointing out that the Associated Press had to retract its headline because it distorted Vance’s quote.

The Republican senator then emphasized one key fact about the shooting. While two students and two teachers were tragically killed by 14-year-old suspect Colt Gray, the shooting could have been worse.

"It wasn't as bad as it might have been because there was a police officer on school premises that was able to neutralize the shooter,” Cotton noted, using the opportunity to point to Harris’s comments from 2019 about school resource officers.

"That's her position," he said. "That's not surprising, because she's consistently taken positions against law enforcement throughout her career as a San Francisco liberal. If that police officer hadn't been there and Kamala Harris had gotten her way, many more students and teachers might have been killed."

Dana Bash absolutely floored by Tom Cotton's answer on school shootings, by highlighting Kamala's record on taking police out of schools:
Dana Bash: "Do you accept that school shootings like this are just a way of life now?"
Tom Cotton: "It wasn't as bad as it might have been… pic.twitter.com/v8mSajlCyW
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