Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA), who attended a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that speakers at the Republican National Convention should “tone down their voices” in light of the events at the rally.
In an interview Speaking to CNN News Central, CNN reporter Boris Sanchez said that at the previous night’s convention, speakers had called Democrats “dangerous” and President Biden “demented.”
“Do you wish that hadn’t been part of the trial?” Sanchez asked.
“That’s true,” Muether responded. “I try my best not to make that a part of my language or my vocabulary, but sometimes in politics, things get a little heated. But we all have to make a conscious effort to tone it down and tone it down, and we all have to see examples of that.”
Trump faced an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening, and Muether said he witnessed “panic and grief” at the rally that day.
“People were ducking, people were falling to the floor, the Secret Service came out and told everyone to get down. There was panic and grief,” Meuser told The Hill in a phone interview after the shooting. “A lot of people were just crying because they were scared the president was going to get shot.”
“Someone had been shot in my area and someone was calling paramedics,” he added. “So it was chaos.”
During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, Meuser criticized the Democratic Party’s rhetoric, saying, “There’s a lot of rhetoric coming from the left as well.”
“Last Friday, Biden said Donald Trump [Nazi leader Adolf] “Hitler,” said Muhser.
“The political discourse in this country has become very heated,” Biden said in the Oval Office on Sunday.
“It’s time for calm,” Biden said in his remarks. “This puts a heavy burden on all of us that no matter how strong our beliefs may be, we must never descend into violence.”
