Sen. Doug Jones appeared on CNN this week to respond to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calling on people to confront members of President Trump’s administration in public.
In the interview, Jones said Democrats should be “focusing on the issues of the day” instead of “name-calling and bullying.”
“I’m not saying don’t fight back,” Jones explained. “You fight back on issues that are important. You don’t have to fight back with name-calling and bullying and trying to yell people down. Fight back on the issues. I still believe that the issues that we have facing this country that Democrats have better solutions — that’s how you fight back. You fight back in the trenches with the issues of the day.”
He continued, saying, “[M]aybe I was raised different than some of these folks, but I just don’t think you have to get down in the gutter and name call and try to bully people.”
Jones faces the decision of voting with the people of Alabama for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee or voting with the Democrats against the pick.
