{"id":1421,"date":"2024-11-11T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/johnson-mcconnell-ask-harris-to-stop-escalating-the-threat-environment-after-trump-fascist-remarks\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:22","slug":"johnson-mcconnell-ask-harris-to-stop-escalating-the-threat-environment-after-trump-fascist-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-mcconnell-ask-harris-to-stop-escalating-the-threat-environment-after-trump-fascist-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson, McConnell ask Harris to \u2018stop escalating the threat environment\u2019 after Trump fascist remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Vice President Kamala Harris in a rare joint statement to tone down her rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day, days after Harris said she considered Donald Trump a fascist. The two top Republicans accused Harris of fanning &ldquo;the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus&rdquo; and said her words in recent days &ldquo;seem to dare it to boil over.&rdquo; &ldquo;She must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions,&rdquo; Johnson and McConnell said in their statement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/25\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/mcconnell-johnson-write-harris-00185528\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Vice President Kamala Harris in a rare joint statement to tone down her rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day, days after Harris said she considered Donald Trump a fascist. The two top Republicans accused Harris of fanning &ldquo;the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}