White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says communist-style candidates are becoming mainstream in the Democratic Party on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS: White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt joins us now. Commie Revolution, Karoline! Did you ever see this coming? KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: That was quite the monologue. Never would I imagine I’d be watching videos like that. Candidates running for the modern day Democratic Party. This is not your granddaddy’s Democratic Party. This is not the Democratic Party of JFK. This is a full-blown communist revolution that is taking over Capitol Hill, right here in Washington, D.C. just a few steps away from where we are sitting right now. The inmates are running the asylum. These are crazy people who are advocating against what I call the 3P’s — prison, police, and private property. They don’t want any of those things, and those are the ideals that founded this great country 250 years ago, but as President Trump says, communism is easy to sell, you just promise people free stuff until a few years you’re living in squalor with no free home, no free food. You’re just sitting there with a whole bunch of communists looking around and saying, what the heck happened to our failed state? WATTERS: And the President said he’d be a great communist, he would just give everything away for free. LEAVITT: It’s an easy sell to make. WATTERS: But he said communism, this new strain, it’s the biggest threat the country in 250 years has ever faced. I mean, that is — that’s a powerful statement. LEAVITT: And he is a hundred percent right about that, because if you look at these candidates, they are becoming mainstream in the modern day Democratic Party. You mentioned Chuck Schumer is worried about his leadership position, he should be, because if he was in a primary in New York State against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is a socialist and probably commie curious, as you pointed out, he would get wiped out, and he’s the leader of the Democratic Party. Hakeem Jeffries is afraid of these candidates running because they are going to take over the Democratic Party. So, the way that we stop this communist revolution in its tracks is for great Americans across the country who love America, who are celebrating her in 250 years of our great nation this week to vote against this communist revolution, vote against the Democrats. There is only one choice: It is President Trump. It’s the Republican Party, and it’s common sense. That’s what this is about: Communism versus common sense. WATTERS: That’s a good way to frame it. If it doesn’t go that way, if these commies get in, they’re going to be a powerful little caucus. They’re going to be here to blow things up. They’re not here to negotiate Pentagon funding. They want zero Pentagon funding. They’re in here to destroy the country. How would the President negotiate with people like that? LEAVITT: I’m not sure you can, and I think that’s why the president is being so bold in warning the American public against this communist takeover of the Democrats. And as Ronald Reagan perfectly stated, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. If these communists are given a chance at power here in Washington, D.C., if they retake the majority in Washington away from the Republicans, we will be heading down a communist takeover. Ask the people of Cuba how that worked out for them. They are begging to come here right now. WATTERS: Some of these kids, and I call them kids because they’re in their 20s and they’ve never had real jobs, and they’re complaining things are expensive. Yes, things are expensive when you don’t have a real job. LEAVITT: Right. WATTERS: Do you think that’s getting traction? Complaining? LEAVITT: Unfortunately, I do, because this generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z, and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouth, just getting everything handed to them, that’s not the values this country was built on. WATTERS: No. LEAVITT: It was built on meritocracy and hard work, pulling up your sleeves, pulling yourself up from your bootstraps, and achieving the American Dream and we need to protect it with all we’ve got. WATTERS: Is it laziness? LEAVITT: A little bit. WATTERS: Is it because the professors said the country is corrupt, it’s evil, and we just need to shake them down and hand money out? LEAVITT: It’s laziness and it’s the liberal indoctrination. You bring up a great point about our education system. However, I will say silver lining, so many parents that I talk to across the country are homeschooling, are turning to private education, are turning towards Christian schools across the country because they don’t want their children being taught these communist and liberal ideas slam down their throats. It is why President Trump and The White House has advocated so strongly for school choice across the country. We want kids to be taught to love our country. They should. It is the greatest country in the history of the world. WATTERS: All right, I say, you know, if they misbehave, just make all these young kids join the Army, right? Shape them up. I almost had to. LEAVITT: Or send them to Cuba or send to Iran, they will want to come back real quick. WATTERS: That’s a good point. They can say hi to the gay Ayatollah. Thank you so much. And welcome back, Karoline. LEAVITT: Good to see you, Jesse.

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