Sen. Alex Padilla, the California Democrat who was forcibly removed from a press conference being held by Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem this week after trying to ask her questions, was attempting to pull off a political stunt, Dick Morris, an adviser for President Donald Trump, told Newsmax on Saturday.

“It’s really a show for their own constituency,” Morris said on Newsmax’s “The Count.” “I’ve said that I think that Democrats always react to electoral defeats by moving to the left and becoming more and more outrageous and more and more strident in their demands.”

And now, after former President Joe Biden’s loss to Trump, “the Democratic constituency demands that they be confrontational, that they move to the left. And very often, it gets them in trouble with voters that don’t see that way,” Morris said.

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