On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) stated that she’s pleased that Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed “began the trip towards making amends, but he’s got a lot more work to do” for his prior comments. And “any candidate that refuses to disavow, step back from any kind of bigotry is really — like I said, has a lot of work to do and may never get there.” Though she later said that there is “no welcome mat” for bigots in the party and that’s a position the party is unified on.
Co-host Kate Bolduan asked, “Look, even in your former role as a former chair of the DNC, you know that there are a wide range of views within the Democratic Party, and have been for a long time. But when you — this is absolutely part of the conversation that we’ve seen in many races in the Democratic primaries to this point. In Michigan, this became a central tension point in the Senate race, with Abdul El-Sayed winning that primary, as was mentioned as I came into this segment. He, speaking to a group of Jewish Democrats this weekend, apologized for past comments that he made. Very — saying that it was a mistake that he said that after that horrific attack on the synagogue. What do you think of his apology?”
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