Ex-Obama Adviser Knocks Joni Ernst’s Town Hall Fumble In 1 Blunt Takedown | EUROtoday

David Axelrod, ex-senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, on Monday bluntly criticized Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) for sarcastically saying “we are all going to die” at a city corridor in response to constituents’ fears over GOP-backed Medicaid cuts.

“People will be affected, when you take seven, eight, nine million people off of Medicaid, there will be people who will die,” Axelrod advised CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Ernst doubled down on her closely criticized feedback by posting a non-apology video, seemingly filmed in a cemetery, on social media.

Axelrod wasn’t having any of it.

“It was really insensitive of her to put that video up and politically stupid,” he mentioned.

Ernst’s dismissive remarks — which sparked a sea of jeers from the city corridor crowd in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Friday — had been in response to considerations over proposed cuts outlined in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that appears to slash $1 trillion from federal well being and meals applications.

The response to Ernst has led Iowa state Rep. J.D. Scholten (D) — who as soon as almost unseated white supremacist and ex-U.S. Rep. Steve King in 2018 — to announce that he plans to problem her in subsequent yr’s main, telling Politico on Monday that she “disrespected” Iowans along with her remarks.

“We’re taking them off [Medicaid]so billionaires can have a second yacht, so they can have a bigger tax break,” Scholten mentioned.

“We have a system that’s geared towards and favors billionaires and huge multinational corporations, and that’s not working for most of Iowa.”

Ernst advised CBS News on Monday that she’s “very compassionate” and claimed that individuals “need to listen to the entire conversation” from the occasion.