{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=5CBC805B-A26E-4098-B09A-182D1EF4B193", "Leader McConnell and Speaker Johnson to VP Harris: End The Dangerous Rhetoric", "2024-10-25", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Leader McConnell and Speaker Johnson released the following statement:\n\n\u201cThis summer, after the first attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in more than a century, President Biden insisted that \u2018we cannot allow this violence to be normalized.\u2019 In September, after President Trump escaped yet another close call, Vice President Harris acknowledged that \u2018we all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence.\u2019\n\n\u201cThese words have proven hollow. In the weeks since that second sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States has only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus. Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over. The Vice President's words more closely resemble those of President Trump's second would-be assassin than her own earlier appeal to civility.\n\n\u201cThe man who was caught waiting in ambush in Florida left others with a chilling call to arms: \u2018It is up to you now to finish the job\u2019. Labeling a political opponent as a \u2018fascist,\u2019 risks inviting yet another would-be assassin to try robbing voters of their choice before Election Day.\n\n\u201cVice President Harris may want the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive authority. But first, she must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions. We have both been briefed on the ongoing and persistent threats to former President Donald Trump by adversaries to the United States, and we call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and help ensure President Trump has the necessary resources to be protected from those threats.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=5CBC805B-A26E-4098-B09A-182D1EF4B193"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0648861061781645, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}