Pelosi: I hope Trump will stop feeding 'red meat to his base'

Source: The Hill




BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 09/24/17 11:31 AM EDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that she hopes President Trump will stop “feeding red meat to his base” and instead “bring people together.”

“It’s unfortunate. I think he was ill-advised, if advised at all, to go down this path,” Pelosi said, referencing Trump’s Friday criticism at an Alabama rally about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. Pelosi said she hopes Trump will move away from exploiting race-related divisions in the United States.

“I would hope that he would transition from that and understand that he has a different responsibility than feeding red meat to his base,” she said. Pelosi added that “it’s one issue at a time,” when asked if she has any reservations about working with Trump due to his recent comments.

“As a leader, we have responsibility to try to find common ground, stand our ground where we can’t, but we have important challenges in our country that e have to address and if we can find that path, I think we should do that,” Pelosi said.

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