Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., weigh in on the transition on 'Hannity'
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Hannity Special
Joe Biden is having a rough
start to his transition, with
some in his own party openly
criticizing his decision.
For example, many progressives
have publicly complained about
the numerous Obama era:
holdovers tapped to fill
bidens cabinet,
the lack of pushback from
Biden and his team has
projected an image of
weakness.
Dont take my word for it
with politico writing. That
Biden has often seemed as if
someone fixed a kick me sign
to the back of his suit
jacket.
Progressive anger at Joe Biden
is not the only fissure within
the party
days after Congresswoman
Alexandria, Ocasio, Cortez
supported calls for Pelosi and
Schumer to give up their
leadership roles. A democratic
steering committee snubbed the
outspoken congresswoman from
New York by not appointing her
to the Energy and Commerce
Committee,
which would oversee issues
like the green New Deal and
Medicare for all
Alexandria. Ocasio Cortez also
made waves, backing Biden,
deputy chief of staff, Jen
Omalley, Dillon, obviously
reaching her hand out across
the aisle calling Republicans
a bunch of F ers
and a dot oc doubled down, saying
yeah. That is the right word
joining with us. The reaction
is Arizona, congressman, Andy
Biggs and Fox NEWS. Contributor,
Charlie hurt
gentlemen. Thank you for
joining US
congressman. I want to start
with you.
It really was amazing. In the
election,
not a single Republican
running for re election in the
House of Representatives lost
not a single one of them.
Yet Pelosi said there would be
more than a dozen you know
victories
that never materialized,
creating one of the closest
splits in the House of
representatives we ever had.
You have a fissure with
Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez,
evidently a weak Joe Biden
not able to come in
what is going on over there if
house of Representatives,
not that I miss it.
But what is going on
good to see you Jason?
I will tell you you are not
missing much.
What you are missing is a
front row seat to the remaking
of the Democrat Party.
This is Alexandria,
Ocasio, Cortez and the squad
they dont want to just remake
the party they belong to.
They want to remake America,
destroy the America we know
and replace it with a marxian
economy and government.
They always wanted to use Joe
Biden as Trojan horse to
manipulate him in to that
the problem with that they
have picked fight with
virtually every other
Democrat,
like Henry Cuellar old line.
Democrats
running people against them,
while doing that they have
made themselves outcasts
within that caucus itself,
while using social media to
try to influence the rest of
America.
So youve got this hard
leftist, like a dot oc trying to
take over the party
and remake the country and the
party,
those that dont want that are
clinging to it.
You know Pelosi is going to.
It looks like she will try to
isolate a dot oc and the squad.
This time
lets see how it goes
im interested to see how it
develops
yeah.
I think this is intertwined
with what is going on with Joe
Biden
Charlie. You know, Donald
Trump was a leader.
You could call him a lot of
things.
The guy was a leader.
He was taking charge and
saying hey. We are going to go
over and take that point right m
right there.
I understand that Biden and
Obama were leading from behind,
but I cant imagine Donald
Trump taking a story that says
he wears a jacket that says
Quicksayskick me on the back
like they are writing about
Biden
there couldnt a weaker image
than that.
No doubt
we are seeing the effects of
that
President Trump remade. I
argue not only remade the
Republican Party and in a lot
of ways we will see he remade
the Democratic Party as well.
One of his most effective
tools has always been to put
his enemy to put his
opponents in untenable
positions.
That is what the Democrats
have done.
I dont blame anybody
for people like a dot oc. No one
is to blame more than people
like Nancy Pelosi and Joe
Biden.
They are the ones who refuse
to stand up to these people
before
then. Of course, Joe Biden
didnt have the decency to
actually run a campaign.
Didnt have the decency to ask
people for their vote on
policy positions or campaign
where he laid out his vision.
His only vision was Donald
Trump im, a nice person
or something like that.
The problem with that is now
there is this huge vacuum,
its an issue: vacuum
mandate, vacuum
where Joe Biden has no mandate
and everybody in the
Democratic Party, its like a
feeding frenzy among sharks,
where everybody is running in
trying to fill the void with
the crazy agenda.
The problem with that is that
the agenda that the people are
bringing are insane,
whether its taxing guns,
taking peoples, guns away,
raising taxes getting back to
bed with IRAN
or giving the rest of the
store away to China
whatever it is, they want to
do.
They are trying to foist all
of this on to Joe Biden
and, while part of me says this
is going to be a lot of down,
sit back and watch,
the people will tear each
other to pieces.
The problem is that America is
in the balance,
and this country could go down
the drain based on what a lot
of the people are trying to
espouse
yeah.
This is the problem, the
challenge
real quickly, Congressman
Biggs. I have to ask you with
the margin so tight and so
close. Can Nancy Pelosi run
the gauntlet and actually
garner? Two hundred and eighteen votes to be the
speaker of the house.
It will be really close.
It looks like she is trying to
isolate the a dot oc dot S of the
world.
That makes it very very
close.
I dont think her margin will
be more than what
seven eight maybe MAX ten
tight.
She cant lose more than five
votes in the scenario.
What she is doing with the
Congress Races in Iowa and New
York is a travdy.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-19.