Posted January 5, 2016 5:38 pm by Comments

By Fred Lucas

White House press secretary Josh Earnest gestures as he talks about the Islamic State group during the daily press briefing, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Barack Obama has called on Americans supporting gun control to be “single-issue voters” in order to combat pro-gun rights voters. After the president announced executive actions Tuesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest echoed the president’s call.

But when asked if Obama would then endorse pro-gun control Republicans for re-election, Earnest had to pause before finally answering — with an explanation — ”I’m skeptical that will happen.”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In an October news conference, Obama said that voters who support gun control outnumber opponents, but he stressed that the intensity is on the side of the the gun lobby.

“You have to make sure that anyone who you are voting for is on the right side of this issue, and if they are not, even if they are great on other stuff, for a couple of election cycles you have to vote against them and let them know why you’re voting against them,” the president said at the time. “You just have to, for a while, be a single-issue voter because that’s what’s happening on the other side.”

After Obama announced plans for executive actions on Tuesday, Earnest repeated Obama’s point.

“The president has made this observation before …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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