‘Wait! Wait! Wait!’: Harris Faulkner Calls Out Former Dem Rep For Spinning Obama’s Bad Track Record For Party

Fox News host Harris Faulkner cut off former Democratic Rep. Pat Murphy of Pennsylvania Thursday after he tried to avoid addressing the Democratic Party’s dramatic losses under former President Barack Obama.

Obama said during a Tuesday event that many Democrats became “comfortable in their righteousness” during his administration, the New York Times reported. Former George W. Bush administration official Marc Theissen described some of the losses Democrats suffered during the eight years of Obama’s presidency during a segment on “The Faulkner Focus.”

“If you want a path out of the political wilderness the last person you should follow is Barack Obama,” Theissen said. “Barack Obama’s presidency is the moment the Democratic Party abandoned Clintonian centralism for left-wing 🏛️Politics. It was a disaster for the Democratic Party. I went back and looked at the members, Harris, during Barack Obama’s eight years, Democrats lost 1,027 elected offices across the country.”

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“They started out his presidency with 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a 257-vote majority in the house. They lost 12 Senate seats and 63 House seats, thanks to Obama. At the state level, they lost 939 legislative seats and 12 governorships,” Theissen continued. “And of course, the final verdict of the American people on the Obama presidency, they elected Donald Trump and did it with 8.3 million people who voted for Obama and switch their votes to Donald Trump. So this is not somebody who you want to lead them out of the political wilderness because he led them into it.”

Faulkner gave Murphy, who was one of the Democrats who lost seats in the House of Representatives in the