The Democratic Party takes the Americans hope with the coronavirus lockdowns, Fox News co-author Burgess Owens told Moments “The Ingraham Angle” moments after his speech Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention.
The retired NFL player and Republican nominee for Utah’s 4th Congressional District took Democratic leadership for closing businesses and sports.
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“What the Democratic Party is doing in principle is taking away everything that gives us hope, gives us excitement,” Owens said. “They are truly a dark, dark, depressed party, and on the other side of the coin we are optimistic, we are light. We say let’s go out and make things happen. Let’s figure it out.”
In his RNC speech, Owens shared that after his Super Bowl championship with the Oakland Raiders, he lost everything and moved his family of six to a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn where he took a job as a chimney sweep during the day and a night watchman. .
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“We have business owners out there, we have this mentality that we will invent ways around everything, including this virus if we just allow them to let us go and do what we do best, and that’s a way to find out. won, ”he told host Laura Ingraham, who called his remarks“ electrifying ”.
The former security guard for the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders said there is “no question” Democrats are using everything they can to restrict freedom.
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“Football, the flag, the national anthem, that has everything to do with progress or keeping things depressed and down,” he explained.
With some in the NFL cancellation practice and others in the NBA boycott games due to racial unrest following Jacob Blake’s police-involved shooting in Kenosha, Wis., Owens said the organizations will lose fans like him.
