Burgess Owens slams Dems as ‘darkish, depressed social gathering’ in comparison with ‘optimistic’ GOP
The Democratic Party is taking hope from Americans with the coronavirus lockdown, Fox News employee Burgess Owens told The Ingraham Angle shortly after his speech on Wednesday evening at the Republican National Convention.
Retired NFL player and Republican candidate for Utah’s 4th Congressional District criticized the Democratic leadership for closing down businesses and sports.
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“What the Democratic Party is basically doing is taking away anything that gives us hope and excitement,” Owens said. “They really are a grumpy, dark, depressed party, and on the other side of the coin, we’re optimistic, we’re easy. We say let’s go out and make things happen. Let’s find out.”
In his RNC speech, Owens shared that he lost everything after his Super Bowl championship with the Oakland Raiders and moved his family of six to a one-room apartment in Brooklyn, where he took a daytime job as a chimney sweep and a security guard at night.
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“We have business owners out there, we have this mentality that if we just allow them to let us go and do what we do best, and that, we’ll find ways to work around anything, including this virus, to work around it is finding a way to win, “he told host Laura Ingraham, who described his remarks as” electrifying “.
Former security for the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders said there was “no question” the Democrats are doing everything possible to impede freedom.
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“Football, the flag, the national anthem, it all has to do with moving forward or keeping things depressed and down,” he said.
While some in the NFL are canceling practice and others are boycotting NBA games over race rioting following Jacob Blake’s shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Owens said the organizations will lose fans like him.
