Norquist: Hillary’s Attack on Guns and Fracking Will Cost Her the Election

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(NN&V Staff) – In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist made the case that Hillary Clinton’s attacks on guns and fracking will cause her to lose the general election.

Norquist said:

“Whoever is the Republican nominee is up against Hillary Clinton who I think lost the election in the debate last night with two simple sentences:

“The first was that under her new rules, fracking would exist almost nowhere because of the rules she wants to put in. Democrats used to be able to insult the energy industry because they lived in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Alaska – they don’t vote Democrat. But she declared war on Pennsylvania and Ohio with that statement. That’s not the way to win the election- that’s how you lose it.”

Norquist was referring to Clinton’s comment in Sunday’s Democrat debate where she said, “So by the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place.”

Norquist continued:

“The other was her comment on guns. Hillary Clinton is old enough that she doesn’t know that since she got involved in politics, 13 million Americans now have active concealed carry permits — five and a half percent of the adult population. She announced it was her idea to reduce the number of people who have gun. Not ‘bad people,’ she said last night ‘PEOPLE’ who have guns. There is a voting block of five percent of the electorate this did not exist 20 years ago.”

While Clinton has always been terrible on the gun issue, her anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment statement in Sunday’s debate was broad and sweeping: “I think we have to try everything that works to try to limit the numbers of people and the kinds of people who are given access to firearms.”

Americans for Tax Reform has pointed out Hillary’s support of a new national 25% sales tax on guns.

Norquist concluded:

“The reason they’re important is that Hillary doesn’t understand that attacking the energy industry is no longer attacking a handful of Republican states. They’ve already lost West Virginia because of this and now they’re going to lose Pennsylvania and Ohio. You can’t win the presidency without Pennsylvania and Ohio and those states die if you take away fracking as she announced last night she was going to. You can’t declare war on five and a half percent of Americans who have concealed carry permits and expect to win an election. That’s a new voting group.”

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