Obama Sees 'Straight Line' From Sarah Palin To Donald Trump
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published OCTOBER 3, 2016, 8:28 AM EDT
In an interview published on Sunday, President Obama said that the nomination of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008 marked the beginning of a shift in the Republican party that led to the rise of Donald Trump.
"I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump, the emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in the center of gravity for the Republican Party," Obama told New York Magazine.
"Whether that changes, I think, will depend in part on the outcome of this election, but it’s also going to depend on the degree of self-reflection inside the Republican Party," he continued. "There have been at least a couple of other times that I’ve said confidently that the fever is going to have to break, but it just seems to get worse."
Obama made the comments while discussing congressional Republicans' blanket opposition to working with him. He said that "what you saw was just a series of moments as opposed to one big moment where Republican leadership felt their politics, both in terms of recapturing the majority in Congress but also protecting themselves from what would become the tea-party wing of the party, prevented them, in their minds, from working with this administration in any kind of constructive way."
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