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Warnock hosting fundraiser with activist who compared GOP to terrorist organizations
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Liberal activist Amy Siskind, recognized for her inflammatory remarks evaluating political opponents to terrorist cells, shall be showing alongside Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia at a fundraiser Saturday.
“Thrilled to convey Sen. Warnock to Westchester on March 26 at 2pm!” Siskind mentioned from her Twitter account. “All, from the Tri-state space and past, are welcome! The co-host committee continues to be in formation.”
Warnock is going through Trump-backed candidate Herschel Walker within the upcoming election, with each candidates boasting enviable conflict chests heading into marketing campaign season.
On Sept. 1, two days after the final of the U.S. troops left Afghanistan following the nation’s speedy collapse to the Taliban, Siskind tweeted: “LIBERTY! (besides for girls controlling their very own our bodies). GOP, America’s Taliban. #YallQaeda”
The timing of the tweet advised Siskind was seemingly criticizing the Texas Heartbeat Act, which banned abortions after six weeks of being pregnant, efficient Sept. 1.
REP. VAL DEMINGS, FLORIDA SENATE CANDIDATE, CAMPAIGNS WITH ACTIVIST WHO REPEATEDLY COMPARED GOP TO TALIBAN
The withdrawal from Afghanistan was not the primary time Siskind has equated Republicans with the Taliban. She repeatedly made the comparability towards former President Trump and the GOP on points starting from abortion rights to gun management.
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., arrives for the Senate Democrats’ weekly coverage lunch on the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 15, 2021.
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“Oh look: the Taliban has arrived in America,” she tweeted in January 2017 with a photograph of Trump and his cupboard within the Oval Workplace.
“As we speak, we will put to relaxation that the GOP ‘conflict on ladies’ was a cooked up phrase,” she tweeted in March of that very same yr. “The Trump regime/GOP are the America’s model of the Taliban!”
In September 2015, properly earlier than Trump’s presidency, Siskind said the Republicans threatening a authorities shutdown on the time over Deliberate Parenthood funding had been “America’s model of the Taliban.”
Rep. Val Demings, a Florida Democrat searching for her get together’s nomination to unseat Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, campaigned final yr with Siskind.
Siskind, the writer of “The Record: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Yr,” hosted Demings for a marketing campaign occasion at her residence in Mamaroneck, New York.
She additionally hosted a virtual discussion about home terrorism with Demings, a former police chief, in March.
The Warnock marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Fox Information’ Jessica Chasmar contributed to this report.