Last week, Hillary Clinton went after Republican governors for restricting voting in their states. So, naturally, Fox News echoed the GOP response.
Fox & Friends played a clip from Clinton’s scathing speech, including the quote, “What part of democracy are they afraid of?” before cohost Brian Kilmeade went on the counter-offensive.
“If making sure there’s no fraud actually looks like preventing people from vote, then she doesn’t understand what citizenship is,” he groused. “There’s not a Republican or Democrat stopping people from voting. That is ridiculous. That’s the war on women that never happened.”
Cohost Steve Doocy suggested Clinton was looking to get illegal immigrants to vote. “Do you have to be in this country legally?” he “asked.” He also accused her of “trying to use this to knock Republicans over.”
”And to get African Americans out,” Kilmeade added. He meant to get the African Americans out to vote.
Doocy tried to blame the New York’s voter laws on Clinton, even though she was a U.S. senator, not in the state legislature or administration. “New York does not allow early voting while dozens of Republican-led states do,” Doocy said. “So, I mean, if she’s going to be talking about voting, how about early voting in New York, Madam Secretary?”
As Media Matters noted, this attack line came straight from the RNC.
Orlando Watson, the RNC communications director for black media, criticized Clinton on June 4, saying her “shameless attacks ignore the fact her Democrat-led home state of New York does not allow early voting while dozens of Republican-led states do.”
And as The New York Times noted at the time, Republicans in New York’s state legislature opposed the 2013 early voting measure proposed by Democrats to improve the state’s low voter turnout…
Cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck gave her stamp of approval to the RNC line. “Good refocus there, Steve, for sure.”
Watch it below, from the June 5 Fox & Friends, via Media Matters.