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In an example of what’s likely to play out during the 2020 Democratic primary battle, liberal panelists on NBC’s Meet the Press clashed over the feasibility of the left’s radical Green New Deal on Sunday. NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell rhetorically duked it out with Heather McGhee from the left-wing Demos nonprofit. The former wanted passible legislation while the latter wanted the GND passed in a panic.
Mitchell seemed disgusted by a video put out by a far left-wing group using kids to ambush California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) on the Green New Deal. “Very uncomfortable. Let me just say, I think, first of all, she is a leader on the subject. So, why didn't they go after someone who is against climate change,” she decried. “Who are the adults who bring their kids, who don't understand this stuff, seven, eight, nine, ten-year-olds. I understand the passion of children and how important it is, but to ambush a senator this way.”
McGhee took a more radical hardline stance and touted the use of kids not just to ambushing a Democrat, but also to apparently “sleep” outside a GOP senator’s office. “First of all, those children and the sunrise movement, as it’s called, which was started by young people are sleeping outside of Mitch McConnell’s office. So it's often, ‘why are we attacking Democrats’ is what people say,” she explained.
“They don't post videos though -- They haven't posted videos outside McConnell’s office,” Mitchell shot back. But McGhee responded by noting: “They actually have. They just haven't gone viral.”
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