WASHINGTON — Democrats on Thursday assailed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for questioning President Barack Obama’s love of country, and urged the potential field of Republican presidential candidates to rebuke his comments.
Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said at the start of the DNC’s winter meeting that now is the time for Republican leaders to “stop this nonsense.”
Giuliani, who sought the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, said at a New York City event on Wednesday night that “I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.”
“He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country,” Giuliani said, according to Politico.