Actor Jeff Daniels is still upset over the fact that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump in an electoral landslide in November. He said as much during a recent podcast appearance, going so far as to compare Harris to former President Abraham Lincoln.
“I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice. I don’t care what they say,” the 70-year-old said on Nicole Wallace’s show, “The Best People.”
 “Because she would have done what Lincoln did,” Daniels added. “Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State.” 
“Team of Rivals,” MSNBC political analyst Wallace chimed in, referencing Lincoln’s strategy of appointing political adversaries to his cabinet.
“That’s what Lincoln did, surrounded himself with the people who would disagree with him, not the people who would, you know, take a knee and go, ‘Yeah, more tariffs, sir, more,&#8217;” the actor went on.
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Daniels then said the Republican Party has gotten worse because of Trump.
“It’s the madness of King George… and just the deterioration of the Republican Party,” he said. “I’m just an actor. What do I know? But when Mitch [McConnell] started stacking the courts 25 years ago, I said it on your show once. They can see it coming. The new America that is diverse and treats everyone with equality and respect, and dignity, you know, kind of like Jesus did. We’re ready for that.”
He accused “Mitch and company” of trying to stop this utopia from being achieved out of fear it would make conservatives the “minority.”
“We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law,” Daniels went on. “Lost it. We have normalized verbal abuse on the internet. We’ve normalized bullying. Much as the woke generation tried to, you know, change that. It’s back,” he said. “And out the window goes character, integrity.”
The “Dumb and Dumber” star added, “We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. [Trump is] everything that’s wrong with, not just America, but with being a human being.”
The actor questioned how the conservatives and others on the Right could support the president and indicated that if Jesus came back right now, he wouldn’t be happy with how things are going.

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MSNBC, covering the Republican National Convention just as other television networks, apparently decided that showing the moving tribute to the Gold Star families who lost their children at Abbey Gate in Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal was not worth showing.
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MSNBC refused to cover the portion of the RNC honoring the Abbey gate dead so that Nichole Wallace could fret over the fate of Joe Biden and emote about a dying democracy. <a href="https://t.co/7iZw1jsSP6">pic.twitter.com/7iZw1jsSP6</a>
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Instead, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace pronounced that Democrats were “on the side of angels,” blustering, “I know there’s a lot of people covering the Democratic side, but it is exactly what endangered democracies do in the final hours that determine whether they remain democracies. So people should pull up a little bit on the Democrats, who are on the side of angels, trying to make sure we all continue to live in a democracy.”
As Jorge Bonilla of Newsbusters noted, you could hear the voices of Gold Star families in the background as MSNBC’s Joy Reid spoke over them.
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You can hear the speeches of Gold Star families in the background as MSNBC frets over the future of Kamala Harris. <a href="https://t.co/iCJQ6bjB8e">https://t.co/iCJQ6bjB8e</a> <a href="https://t.co/vmcEqyj5AJ">pic.twitter.com/vmcEqyj5AJ</a>
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Various Gold Star parents had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-biden-afghanistan-families/2021/09/08/c78af1f8-0ff2-11ec-882f-2dd15a067dc4_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed their anger</a> at Biden in the wake of the deaths of their children in 2021. Richard Herrera, whose daughter, Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23, was killed, said of Biden, “He’s not invited to the funeral. If he comes, I won’t let him in the door. I don’t even really want to talk to anyone in his administration. There’s blood on his hands. I’m trying to keep it not political, but I can’t. You can’t not do that. It’s what got my daughter killed.”
The mother of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, Kathy McCollum, told a radio show, “That feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.”
The mother of Marine Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, Shana Chappell, spoke of Biden’s insensitivity when he spoke to her, recalling in an <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/08/24/gold-star-mother-speaks-out-one-year-after-her-son-was-killed-in-kabul-n2612174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Townhall, “He interrupted me and started talking about his son. About his son. And I remember looking at him and going, ‘What are you doing?’ And then I said something along the line, ‘This isn’t about your son. This is about my son.’”
“I told him he had no business talking about his son,” she continued. “And then I started again talking about my son, and then he said, ‘I just wanted to let you know how I feel.’”
“At that point, now I’m even more angry because he said he brought up his son because he just wanted to let me know how he feels,” she remembered. “I probably sounded like I didn’t care that he lost a kid and I didn’t mean for it to sound that way. It’s — his son died of cancer, so they had time to be there, spend time with him, tell him goodbye. My son died because of the very man that I was talking to.”

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