sheriff brown of ohio with the president today. democrats trying to ramp up pressure with mitch mcconnell to vote on background check bills passed by the house this year. earlier today, 213 house democrats sent mcconnell a letter urging him to call the senate back into session, cut the session short and letter reads in part quote, in february the democratic house majority took swift action to pass the bipartisan bills that save lives but has the support of more than 90% of the american people. since that time you have allowed more than 150 days to pass and countless lives have been lost including those most recently lost in gilroy, california, el paso, texas, dayton, ohio, chicago, illinois and the many others who will never make the headlines.
so there was that today 2020 democratic candidates using stark language as you just heard to describe the president s racist rhetoric that sentiment there echoed today by el paso native beto o rourke running for president, also happened to be the target of a donald trump tweet mocking his name and telling him to be quiet. you ve been very clear you believe the president is racist. is the president a white supremacist? he is. he s dehumanized or sought to that do not look like or pray like the majority here in this country. he said i wish we had more immigrants from nordic countries. those from haiti bring aids. he s been very clear about who he prefers to be in this country and who he literally wants to keep out. couple side bars, i guess we re saying that now and a lot of democrats want mr. o rourke
president put a target on the backs of people there. so the president had a charge to fulfill today in your view, did he fulfill his office today? sadly president trump fails to unite the country the moment he stepped into the oval office and drastically failed? not only was the moment that landed in el paso the most largest i.c.e. raids with over 680 people were hauled out and out of the mississippi food processing plant. children with back pages and the president can t get it together. he cannot bring together a country who is grieving? brian, this, what happened in el paso this weekend, this is the latino s community of 9/11.
our closing seconds with you both starting with you, tim. is this the next natural step for the democratic campaign? we have 24 people looking for that nomination. i think it s a good issue for the democrats. i don t know how long this will stay an issue. there is a long campaign ahead of them but i don t think donald trump ever thought when he endeavored to make race this torch that he was putting in front of the american public that it would possibly unwind his campaign and limit his appeal to swing voters but he s also finally put an issue in front of democrats that has them all speaking with one voice, which they hadn t been as recently as a week ago. so i do think this has become. you glue for the democrats. let s be honest, i m taking your tile and don t mean to. a lot of these democrats want to go home and run for senate. you re not going to be president.
twitter. arnie carney, a dual question for you. who in the west wing believes today s trip both stops were a success and why does the twitter account read so much like trump s down to the capization of a phrase like rock star? well, two reasons. one is that he manages the social media for the white house and a lot of tweets we see from trump s twitter feed are written by him. so sometimes what we see in the trump feed is dan and he knows the voice of the president and he echoes it on his own. a lot of the aids, he was a former golf caddy at trump organization who has been with the president forever. i think people who have been in his orbit for a long time have become part of this cult mentality as i ve heard it put by others who want reflect to the president how he wants to be