The Left is going insane. And anyone with half a brain can see it.
And now a Democrat politician brushed aside Trump assassination attempts for a ridiculous reason.
A SIMPLE QUESTION. A REVEALING NON-ANSWER.
In the aftermath of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner assassination attempt — which left the country shaken and the political world on edge — a simple test emerged for Democratic candidates: Can you look into a camera and say that trying to k*ll the President of the United States is wrong?
New Jersey Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Bennett apparently found that question difficult enough to walk away from.
A video circulating widely online, first shared by the Libs of TikTok account, shows a man approaching Bennett on the street and asking a question that should require no deliberation: “Excuse me, Mrs. Bennett, do you think that people should stop trying to k*ll the president?”
Bennett says nothing. She keeps walking. A woman accompanying her attempts to drown out the questioner — not with a rebuttal, but by singing. When the questioning continues, the woman accompanying Bennett tells him: “Oh my God. Dude, get a life. Get a life, dude.”
Bennett climbs into a vehicle. The question goes unanswered.
This is a congressional candidate seeking to represent New Jersey’s 7th District — a pro-Trump district she is trying to unseat sitting Republican Thomas Kean Jr. in. Walking away from a question about presidential assassination attempts is, by any political calculus, an extraordinary thing for such a candidate to do on video.
A CAMPAIGN STATEMENT THAT RAISES MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERS
When Fox News Digital contacted Bennett’s campaign, the response was a statement of condemnation — just not one delivered in the moment when it would have mattered. Bennett’s campaign pointed to a post she shared on X on April 26, the morning after the WHCA Dinner attack.
“Last night’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was an act of political violence, and I condemn it unequivocally,” Bennett wrote. “Political violence has no place in our democracy.” Her campaign added that she “has and always will condemn political violence against President Trump.”
Fine. But the question hanging over this video isn’t whether Bennett has ever produced a condemnation statement when her campaign handlers had time to draft it. It’s why she couldn’t say two words — “of course” — in real time on a public street when asked a direct question about the safety of the President of the United States.
A PATTERN WORTH NOTING
The video comes alongside a Fox News Digital review of Bennett’s X account that found a string of deleted posts at odds with her carefully cultivated “moderate” persona. Among the purged content: praise for progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren, enthusiasm for Kamala Harris’s selection as Joe Biden’s running mate, and agreement with Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe’s call for investigations into law enforcement responses to civil unrest following George Floyd’s death.
Bennett is a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and current Air National Guard member — a biography she has leaned into heavily to project credibility and independence. But the deleted posts and the sidewalk video together paint a picture of a candidate who presents herself one way to voters while privately holding views that would be far less comfortable on the doorstep of the suburban and rural communities she’s asking to represent. Walking away from a basic question about presidential violence — in a year when the president has now survived three assassination attempts — isn’t a minor optics stumble. It’s a window into what a candidate actually thinks when no one has had time to write the statement.
