Shortly after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was fatally shot at a Utah event on Wednesday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) claimed that Democrats were to blame for his death.
“Democrats own this,” Mace told reporters Wednesday on Capitol Hill — although the shooter was, and continues to be, at large, and the motive for the shooting is still very much unknown.
A reporter immediately pushed back.
“By that logic,” NBC’s chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles asked Mace, “do Republicans own the shooting of the two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota?”
Nobles was referring to the killing of former Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, in an attack at their home in June. The same shooter also injured Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in their home not far away.
