Georgia congressional candidate and former state Rep. Vernon Jones, who switched from Democrat to Republican last year, took issue in a video on Thursday with remarks by President Joe Biden that the MAGA movement is the “most extreme” in American history.
Jones pointed back at Democrats as “the most extreme organization in the world, if there is one,” and reminded his supporters that Democrats were the ones that supported slavery and the Ku Klux Klan.
“[T]he Democrats were the ones who opposed freeing the slaves; the Democrats were the ones who started the KKK,” he added.
“It was Joe Biden’s best friend, Senator… Robert Byrd from Virginia, who was the chapter president of the Ku Klux Klan,” Jones said. “And Joe Biden eulogized him and called him his mentor.”
It’s “a Democratic Party who attacked law enforcement officers [and] who want to defund the police departments,” he said, urging people to think for themelves. “This same group do not want babies to be born. This is extreme.”
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