Andrea Mitchell Uses Death of Nancy Reagan to Hammer GOP

Kyle Drennen | March 7, 2016
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Calling in to an NBC special report about the death of Nancy Reagan on Sunday, correspondent Andrea Mitchell was eager to use the former First Lady’s passing to attack the current crop of Republican presidential candidates: “...we know that she did not believe in extremes. That she believed in compromise. That she believed, as did her husband, in walking – in working across party lines....So I would think that she would be pretty concerned about the state of the Republican Party.”

Mitchell admitted that she hadn’t spoken to Mrs. Reagan in recent years “about what has happened in the Republican Party,” but assured viewers that “it would certainly be hard for her to imagine the kind of Republican debates that we saw in the last couple of times and the language that was used, because if nothing else, she was a classy lady.”

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