Dem Rep. Subramanyam: There Isn’t Rising Issue of Left-Wing Violence, One Side Isn’t Worse, Trump ‘Lowered the Bar’

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) responded to a question on if there is a rising issue with left-wing political violence by saying, “No. I think there’s political violence on both sides, and one is not greater than the other.” He also stated that “President Trump has lowered the bar in politics. … And the solution is to clean it up on both sides, and for both sides to agree that it’s a problem with everyone, but that’s not what’s happening right now. There’s just a blame game that continues, and we need to stop it.”

Host Elizabeth Vargas asked, “There is a lot of focus right now on political speech. The Trump administration has said that Democrats are responsible for these attempts on President Trump’s life, the third just this past weekend, the House speaker also criticized the language. House Minority Leader Rep.