El Paso congresswoman to Trump: Don't come here
Source: Politico
By RISHIKA DUGYALA Updated 08/05/2019 12:47 PM EDT
Rep. Veronica Escobar said Monday that President Donald Trump "is not welcome" in her hometown of El Paso, Texas, as the city recovers from a mass shooting that killed 21 people and wounded more than two dozen.
"From my perspective, he is not welcome here. He should not come here while we are in mourning," Escobar, a Democrat whose district includes nearly all of El Paso, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I would encourage the president's staff members to have him do a little self-reflection. I would encourage them to show him his own words and his actions at the rallies."
Later Monday, Democratic 2020 hopeful and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke — who represented El Paso until earlier this year, when he was replaced by Escobar after his failed Senate campaign — joined the congresswoman in saying Trump shouldn't come to the city. He told a reporter from the Corpus Christi Caller Times that Trump has "helped to create what we saw in El Paso on Saturday. He's helped to produce the suffering that we are experiencing right now. This community needs to heal."
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Escobar joined some politicians and 2020 Democratic candidates in linking Trump's rhetoric about minority communities to increased violence. On Monday, she said Trump came into "one of the safest communities in the nation" and months later, so did a gunman.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-veronica-escobar-trump-1448020
I do not think trump has the guts to show up. But maybe he will do it to spite them.
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"Words have consequences," Rep. Veronica Escobar said. "And the president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated." | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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