CNN Dem Slams 'No Manners' GOP, Then Smears Miller as 'Full-Blooded Racist Extremist'

Terry Schilling Antjuan Seawright CNN This Morning 11-11-26

On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright rebuked Republicans, claiming they “did not learn any manners from the election last Tuesday.”

Seawright then promptly demonstrated his own version of manners by personally attacking and taunting his conservative co-panelist.

Seawright accused Terry Schilling [a member of MRC's board] of "political malpractice"—in effect accusing him of incompetence—for noting that Senate Democrats blocked President Trump's agenda.

“Terry, it is political malpractice for you to say that the U.S. Senate is responsible for Donald Trump's failures,” Seawright claimed. He added that voting for Jim Jordan for leader is “a double, triple down on extremism the same way that full-blooded racist extremist Stephen Miller is."

That your idea of "manners," Antjuan?

And nothing says good manners like incoming Speaker Hakeem Jeffries calling for Miller to be "eradicated like a malignant tumor."

 

For his part, Schilling was pointing out that the Democrats have voted in "extremists," and Seawright claimed it somehow doesn't matter because that didn't happen in competitive districts: 

SCHILLING: You just said it was about manners, Antjuan, and you said it's about rejecting extremism while the Democrats are ushering in DSA candidates all across the country.

SEAWRIGHT: No, no, no, Terry.

SCHILLING: Have you heard of El-Sayed? Have you ever heard of Abdul El-Sayed? 

SEAWRIGHT: Name a DSA policy that any Democrat in a competitive district, where we wiped the map with you all, ran on that was elected last Tuesday.

Host Audie Cornish pitched in, saying the Republican strategy will be to point to the cost of Democrat proposals, while the Democrats "are actively trying to find ways to bring down affordability for people." 

Yes, those obstructionist Republicans, having the bad manners to point out the cost of programs, while those brave Democrats fight for affordability!

Here’s the transcript.

CNN This Morning
11/11/26
6:04 am ET

TERRY SCHILLING: Well, look, this is a leadership role. You need someone who’s got some experience behind them, obviously. 

But look, if you really want someone to blame for why the Republicans came up short, I think you've got to look to the U.S. Senate. They blocked every piece of legislation that was part of President Trump's agenda. They blocked a lot of the affordability agenda. They blocked a lot of the housing agenda.

And so, what people need to understand is that Jim Jordan is, he's been more part of the disruptive and more part of the populist wing.

CORNISH: To put up his background, co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus. Remember those fights from the debt, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, so you're in there talking about judicial appointments, and then, of course, led the investigations into Jack Smith and Fani Willis.

ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: Terry, it is political malpractice for you to say that the U.S. Senate is responsible for Donald Trump's failures. 

He's the leader of your party. He failed the American people and the promises he made. But specifically relating to the leadership conversation, Jim Jordan, G-Y-M Jordan, I think is a double, triple down on extremism the same way that full-blooded racist extremist Stephen Miller is.

What's clear to me and to the American people broadly should be that the Republicans did not learn any manners from the election last Tuesday. And it's out of touch-ness.

SCHILLING: I think Republicans lost last Tuesday because they didn't deliver on affordability agenda. There was no affordability agenda that came through.

SEAWRIGHT: But it's different than what you've said every week on this program.

SCHILLING:  You just said it was about manners, Antjuan, and you said it's about rejecting extremism while the Democrats are ushering in DSA candidates all across the country.

SEAWRIGHT: No, no, no, Terry.

SCHILLING: Have you heard of El Sayed? Have you ever heard of Abdul El Sayed? 

SEAWRIGHT: Name a DSA policy that any Democrat in a competitive district, where we wiped the map with you all, ran on that was elected last Tuesday.

SCHILLING: No, no, I agree, I agree. And look, you guys are, you guys just got a preview of what happens when you campaign on a different agenda than what you deliver.

CORNISH: Antjuan, let me jump in here, because what Terry is saying is the future of where Republicans are going to go with this argument, right? So you're going to be having this argument for a while.

This is Tom Emmer, the majority whip. The whip is the person who counts the votes on his side. But here's how he said that Republicans are going to spend their time over the next few weeks.

TOM EMMER (clip): This Republican leadership team will expose the Democrats' lies, and show the American people their true colors as the radical communists that they are. We will expose every empty promise that they made to voters. We will expose Democrats' economic agenda that will make housing, food, gas, and healthcare more expensive.

With this House Republican team, I am confident we will win back the trust and confidence of the American people in short order. We will undo the damage and chaos caused by these radicals, and we will retake the majority in 2028.

SEAWRIGHT: Again, you didn't learn anything. You tried to gerrymander maps. That didn't work. You tried to push this extreme agenda. That did not work. And yet here you are repeating some of the same things.

CORNISH: Here's what's different that I'm paying attention to. We will expose Democrats' economic agenda, making these topics, housing, food, gas, healthcare, more expensive.

What I hear is a party that's going to spend all its time every time a bill comes up saying, you know how much that is? You know how much that is? You know how much that is?

When Democrats are actively trying to find ways to bring down affordability for people.