Mikie Sherrill under fire for remarks on slain conservative activist
Newark, NJ – Rep. Mikie Sherrill is facing intense backlash after issuing a statement in which she described assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk as a “racist” and “bigot,” even as she condemned the political violence that claimed his life when he was assassinated by a radicalized left-wing man from Utah, who was in an affair with a trans man.
“I had enough of his hatred,” Tyler Robinson wrote before murdering Kirk. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Kirk was shot in the neck with a high-powered rifle that was watched by tens of millions of people. It was rhetoric like Sherrill’s that drove the shooter to kill him.
Sherrill’s attempt to appease compassionate New Jerseyans, while catering to her far-lef