Just after the Senate confirming Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general Thursday, the Democratic National Committee used the occasion to attack Republican presidential candidates for their stances on the AG nominee.
“It’s about time Senate Republicans finally came to the table and allowed a vote to confirm Loretta Lynch as our next attorney general,” DNC spokesman Michael Tyler said in a statement. “Instead of working to ensure that our justice system serves its citizens to the best of its ability by swiftly confirming Lynch, Republicans chose to delay her confirmation for longer than any attorney general nominee in over three decades for purely political purposes.”
According to the DNC, this reluctance to confirm the “extraordinarily qualified” Lynch was “embarrassing,” and Tyler particularly singled out GOP candidates for representing “what Republican leadership looks like.”
“Americans deserve leaders who will get things done for the American people, leaders like Loretta Lynch — not more of this obstructionist nonsense that we’ve seen from the likes of Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz; all of whom voted against her confirmation,” Tyler continued.
Furthermore, the comments made by Rubio, Paul, Cruz and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker about Lynch were “horrible, and completely uncalled for,” in Tyler’s opinion. The DNC’s statement then went on to list “lowlights” from the aforementioned Republicans where the candidates indicated their shared belief that Lynch was not qualified for the position.
Many Republicans opposed Lynch’s confirmation due to her support of President Obama’s executive amnesty.