Jimmy Kimmel attacked Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday after the former governor declared the GOP remains the party of Lincoln.
Schwarzenegger defends traditional Republican legacy
Kimmel asked, “Are you still a Republican?” Schwarzenegger answered, “Yeah, I’m a Republican, absolutely.” When pressed, he said a traditional Republican honors the party that freed the slaves and gave them citizenship and voting rights.
Kimmel dismissed the claim, saying the party no longer credits that history.
Conservatives counter that the Democratic Party now threatens ordinary Americans through higher taxes, expansive welfare programs and expansive government control.
They cite Democratic support for soaring tax rates, student‑loan bailouts and federal expansion of welfare benefits that they argue create dependent voting blocs.
Red tape favored by Democrats includes climate mandates, diversity equity and inclusion quotas, gun restrictions, campus speech codes, cancel culture and corporate pressure campaigns.
In Pennsylvania, Delaware County’s Democrat district attorney charged Jennifer Hill, a canvasser for the New Pennsylvania Project, with attempting to add dead individuals to voter rolls, including her father and another deceased resident. The agency suspended Hill and halted registration drives.
New York City passed a 2021 law allowing more than 800,000 noncitizens to vote in local races, which former Mayor Eric Adams allowed to take effect. The Republican National Committee sued, and New York’s highest court struck down the law 6‑1, siding with Republican challengers.
Washington, D.C. Democrats attempted a similar measure. The House voted 260‑162 to disapprove the noncitizen voting law, with 42 Democrats joining Republicans, but the resolution stalled in the Democratic‑controlled Senate, leaving the law in force.
Former President Joe Biden warned in January 2022 that the midterms “could easily be illegitimate” if his voting‑rights overhaul failed, prompting conservatives to label the comment hypocritical given their criticism of Georgia’s election‑integrity law as “Jim Crow.”
Who stands for freedom? Schwarzenegger points to Abraham Lincoln.
