Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said Sunday that Republicans should be having discussions about whether Donald Trump should step aside instead of focusing on President Joe Biden's debate performance.
In an interview on Fox News, host Mike Emanuel asked Auchincloss if Biden's recent interview with ABC News had "moved the needle" on the possibility of him leaving the Democratic presidential ticket.
But the Massachusetts lawmaker said he was more concerned about Trump's support for Project 2025, a controversial plan to reshape the country with a right-wing agenda.
"What is necessary is that we defeat Donald Trump in November, because what Donald Trump has planned for his second term is Project 2025, which is going to politicize Social Security, send those checks with strings attached," he warned. "It's going to try to outlaw abortion medication. It's going to undermine civil-military relations, make the United States closer to a banana republic."
"And it's going to install him as a dictator who can use the Department of Justice as his personal law firm for retribution," he continued. "And my challenge to Republicans is, have the same painful and public conversation that Democrats are having right now."
"You should be stressing to Donald Trump that he should step aside, because after that debate performance where he lied once every 90 seconds and, again, refused to honor election results, that last time around."
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"But what about the Democratic concern about the president?" Emanuel asked, turning the discussion back to Biden.
"The president won the vast majority of delegates through free and fair elections, which we as a party respect, unlike Republicans," Auchincloss noted. "We need to have thorough, methodical conversations at every level of the party."
"And again, the Republican Party is refusing to do that," he added. "They are a cult of personality that is not holding their party leader to account in any way whatsoever, even despite the fact that he is trying to overturn the core institutions of our democracy."
Watch the video below from Fox News.
