EMILY’s List President says extreme violence incited by Trump was “bound to happen”

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Scott speaks with Stephanie Schriock, the President of Emily’s List about her new book “Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World,” as well as the impact and repercussions of the disgraced ex-President’s insurrection against the Capitol, which led to his historic second impeachment. Born in Minnesota, Schriock became a key member of a presidential campaign before leading two successful senatorial campaigns in the midwest which led to her elevation to guide America’s top progressive political action committee dedicated to finding and supporting women in campaigns for public office.
 
Stephanie shared her reaction to this year’s violence in D.C. as someone who used to work in the building and with a historical perspective that every American should appreciate the threats looming against our democracy. 
 
“For all of us that have been paying attention closely for the last four years have known that, that we are on the very edge here in the Trump presidency. The Trumpian Republican party, that has been taken over I wish I could say this is going to be over in eight days. I don’t believe it.” Schriock told us on January 13th, 2021. “I think we’ve got a lot of problems ahead of us and I don’t think Trump is going to go away. I wish I could say I was surprised by last week. I wasn’t surprised. I was hurt. I was saddened. I was angry. But I’m not surprised. He has been trying to incite this type of violence from the very beginning and it’s bound to happen.”

“For those that haven’t had the honor of being in the United States Capitol, I don’t know, Scott, if you feel the same way. It’s awe-inspiring,” the President of EMILY’s List told Dworkin. “You feel the history of our nation, the good and bad that have walked through those halls, but you feel it. And so it is awe-inspiring to be there, and then to be a Member on the floor of the, in this case, the United States House of Representatives and going through what should have been and has always been just a simple procedure of, of certifying the electoral college, to next being hold, you got to evacuate and here’s how to use your gas masks. That happened to these Members; my heart breaks.”

This is the first episode of season 4.

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