It's clear that for the Democrat party the unified message they're attempting to put out this election cycle is that they are the party of law-and-order, they support the military, and that their candidates are pragmatic and simply seek to bring unity and common sense to a divided and chaotic country instead of the radical leftists we know many of them to be. From Kamala Harris on down, that's the image, and if the candidate is a lawyer and they can claim that candidate is an attorney who ever worked as a prosecutor they'll claim that candidate is the most hard-nosed prosecutor you've ever seen.
Usually, though, it's not that difficult to find ways to get behind that carefully curated facade.
Congressional candidate Will Rollins, who's running in a purple district in southern California, is one such example. Like Harris, he's using a tough-on-crime prosecutor persona and references to his grandparents and his origin story to mask his radical beliefs.
My grandparents were Republicans. The party they believed in no longer exists.
— Will Rollins (@WillRollinsCA) February 21, 2024
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Here's part of what he says in that video, and it's pretty unbelievable on its face as far as his take on what the GOP stands for:
They taught me that the GOP stood for smaller government, personal responsibility, law and order, and standing up to Russia.
The reason I'm a Democrat today is that the party my grandparents once believed in no longer stands for any of those things, just extremism and the politics of division....
My career has been about public service, first working for a Republican governor, then in counterterrorism at the Department of Justice, and a prosecutor protecting Riverside County.
He also claims that as a prosecutor he went hard after MS-13 and cross-border drug traffickers. More on that in a minute, but at least he actually was a prosecutor unlike his fellow California Democrat Kipp Mueller, whose fake background RedState exposed last week.
But someone who doesn't believe in "extremism and the politics of division" doesn't praise Nancy Pelosi as the greatest Speaker of the House in U.S. History, and doesn't vow to make Hakeem Jeffries the next Speaker, as Rollins did at a recent online event.
RedState obtained video from that event. In this clip he praises Pelosi, and essentially pledges his allegiance to both Pelosi and her daughter, Christine:
He said:
And, of course, my gratitude to the greatest Speaker of the House of Representatives in U.S. history, Nancy Pelosi, for all of her incredible support going back to 2022. You know, she said something to me when I launched this second campaign that sticks to me to this day, which is, "You're in the second phase of a one-two punch," and we are gonna finish the job in November thanks to the help from Team Pelosi and, of course, the wonderful Christine Pelosi, who has also had my back since 2022. So thank you, Christine, for all of your help.
Of course, as the candidate in a targeted swing seat Rollins is expected to say things like, "Let's take back the House and make Hakeem Jeffries Speaker." But still, Hakeem Jeffries is a complete radical whose beliefs are not in line with those of the voters in Rollins' district.
Rollins said:
We're gonna win this thing and Hakeem Jeffries will be the next Speaker of the House. Thank you guys.
And Pelosi has some kind words for him, if you can understand them through the slur.
Pelosi called Rollins a "star" and got personal about the incumbent, GOP Rep. Ken Calvert:
"Now, listening to Barbara I can agree with her in every respect, especially the contrast between these two candidates. Will Rollins, as Barbara went through his record and the rest, is a star. He's very, very special to represent the people of that district, and the other guy, the other guy is not. I mean, it's a disgrace. I mean, he's a terrible person."
Ben Petersen, NRCC's Western Press Secretary, believes Rollins' comments on this video show who he really is:
“Will Rollins is an extreme liberal wolf in sheep’s clothing. Two-faced fraud Rollins peddles a fake moderate image in public while pledging lock-step loyalty to Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris behind closed doors.”
Rollins was also in the news this week as the Washington Free Beacon reviewed some of the cases he prosecuted as an Assistant US Attorney - and according to their review, Rollins was easy on drug dealers and routinely dismissed gun charges.
Rollins, who's openly gay and lives in Palm Springs... says he "served in law enforcement to keep our communities safe from drug traffickers and gangs." But the Haskins case wasn't a one-off: Rollins helped a slew of meth dealers secure cushy plea deals, the Free Beacon review of dozens of court records found. They were caught pushing thousands of doses of meth across central California.
Rollins says he wants to strengthen law enforcement task forces to target gang crime. But when a meth-peddling gang member faced life in prison in December 2016, Rollins successfully convinced the court to sentence him to just 10 years.
Rollins's campaign platform also includes tighter gun control measures, but he dropped firearm charges for two dealers. The Democrat also dropped some charges and offense levels for an illegal immigrant who helped sell two pounds of meth—enough for some 9,000 doses—and a dealer who left his children in his car alone with a customer while he went to collect drugs for the transaction.
That's not how we keep our communities safe from drug traffickers and gangs. And, working as a prosecutor does not equal serving in law enforcement. It's sort of weird that Democrats keep claiming that it does.
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