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May 13, 2016

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“YOU BUILT THAT”: SENATOR CASEY REMINDS REPUBLICANS THAT THEY’RE TO BLAME FOR TRUMP

PENNSYLVANIA -- While Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill, wooing Republican senators and winning over Republican representatives, Senator Bob Casey joined fellow Democrats to remind some of his colleagues why they are to blame for his rise.

Trump’s candidacy should come as no surprise; Republicans have spent decades fanning the flames of xenophobia, sexism, racism, and plain nastiness in order to win majorities built on fear and hatred. But now Republicans in Congress are doing all they can to distance themselves from Trump’s toxic rhetoric.

Senator Casey and other senate Democrats gathered on Thursday to take Republicans to task and remind them that they are the party that built Trump’s candidacy. Read more about what Senator Casey and his colleagues had to say:

Uniontown Herald Standard: Casey derides GOP colleagues for following 'Trump Textbook'<http://act.padems.com/page/m/5dcdb8fd/2d698ac4/34742426/475079af/3401403255/VEsH/>

By J.D. Prose

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey had a succinct message to Senate Republicans who are trying to keep their distance from GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump while not alienating his supporters.

“You built that,” Casey, D-Scranton, said Thursday. “You built that candidacy.”

On the day Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican officials to ease tensions, Casey and three other Democratic senators – Charles Schumer of New York, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Chris Coons of Delaware – held a press conference in Washington, D.C., in which they derided their Republican colleagues for following the “Trump Textbook” on policies yet hesitating now to embrace him as the party’s nominee.

“Senate Republicans have been governing from the ‘Trump Textbook’ for years,” Schumer said, ridiculing as “pure fiction” the notion that there is some big policy gulf between them and Trump.

“Donald Trump and Republicans are singing from the same hymnal,” Schumer said.

Among the shared stances of Senate Republicans and Trump, the Democrats said both want tax breaks for the wealthy, oppose Wall Street reform, don’t want the Senate to consider President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee and threatened to have the nation default on its debt.

On that last point, Schumer said, “Donald Trump has called for it. Republican senators have actually done it.”

Stabenow noted Trump’s poor polling among women and said it’s a reflection of his and Republicans’ shared stances on abortion and budget cuts that hurt children and women.

“They’re smart enough to see what’s going on,” she said.

And, Stabenow scoffed at Trump’s grasp of international issues. “Running the Miss Universe pageant does not qualify as foreign policy experience,” she said.

Since Obama took office, Republicans have had a “scorched earth” agenda concerned anything the president has attempted, Casey said, including health-care reform and economic policies to help America recuperate from the recession started under Republican President George W. Bush.

Republicans, Casey said, have “no new ideas” to help the middle class, oppose immigration reform and refuse to raise the minimum wage. On ISIS and terrorism, his GOP colleagues have offered “a lot of hot air, a lot of yelling and screaming, but no plan,” said Casey, who was making his first public comments about Trump since he became the likely GOP nominee.

When asked about Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton locked in a statistical tie in a recent Quinnipiac University poll, Casey said Pennsylvania is historically a close race no matter the candidates and races are “structurally close.”

Although Casey did not mention his name, his colleague from Pennsylvania – U.S. Pat Toomey of Lehigh County – is one of those Republican senators facing a dilemma with Trump. Toomey is expected to have a tough re-election challenge from Democrat Katie McGinty.

Toomey, who endorsed U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in the Republican primary, but voted for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas after Rubio quit, took the unusual step on Sunday of penning a column in the Philadelphia Inquirer in which he explained his stance on Trump and specified areas of disagreement.

Saying he was “inclined” to support the party’s nominee, Toomey wrote that, “Trump is different from previous nominees. There could come a point at which the differences are so great as to be irreconcilable.”

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