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Van Jones: Dems' 'Fantasy Football Politics' Have Failed Us

(CNN/"SE Cupp Unfiltered")

By    |   Sunday, 09 February 2020 01:39 PM EST

Democrats have not only wasted three years of going after President Donald Trump, their "fantasy football politics" have strengthened him and left the party without a candidate to replace him, according to CNN's Van Jones.

"I would accuse my party at this point of having engaged in three years of fantasy football politics," Jones told CNN's "SE Cupp Unfiltered" on Saturday. "Where we said, 'don't worry, Trump is never going to be seated, because the Electoral College will not seat him.' Remember that?

"'Don't worry, Bob Mueller is going to take him out of the White House in handcuffs.' Remember that? 'Oh, don't worry, he's going to be impeached and removed.'"

None of that "three years of all that fantasy football," has come to fruition, Jones lamented.

"Trump is still in the White House, and we still don't have a candidate," he added. "And the way we developed our issues may or may not even serve us. Had we spent the past three years accepting reality – that a bunch of people who voted for Obama twice voted for Trump, hard to call them Nazis – and listened to them in addition to our own constituencies and figured out what they needed, we might be in position to have Trump on the run.

"The reality is, all the blood, sweat, and tears over impeachment, Bob Mueller, all that kind of stuff, has not done anything to dent Trump. Trump is actually higher in the polls than he has ever been, and we still don't have a candidate."

Eric Mack

Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.

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Democrats have not only wasted three years of going after President Donald Trump, their "fantasy football politics" have strengthened him and left the party without a candidate to replace him, according to CNN's Van Jones."I would accuse my party at this point of having...
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