CNN anchor Jim Acosta highlights divisive rhetoric during the Republican National Convention despite the GOP's claims they're calling for unity
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Citation From the July 17, 2024, edition of CNN's CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta
JIM ACOSTA (ANCHOR) Shermichael, I mean, last night Republicans called for unity and toned down rhetoric after Trump's assassination attempt. But let's listen to what some of those lawmakers had to say last night.
GOV. JIM JUSTICE (R-WV): We become totally unhinged if Donald Trump is not elected in November.
SEN. RICK SCOTT (R-FL): We have to fight every day to stop the radical Democrats from absolutely destroying our great country.
REP. MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): They want to tear down those foundations and remold us into some sort of borderless, lawless, Marxist, socialist utopia.
SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): Americans are dying, murder, assaulted, raped by illegal immigrants that the Democrats have released.
GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL): The Democratic party lies in ruins. The woke mind virus is dead!
ACOSTA: That does not sound like a message of unity coming out of the convention.