“Lets have a debate about ideas, let’s not have a debate about who could send out the nastiest rhetoric,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told Bold TV when asked for a closing argument heading into Election Day. “African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, men, everyone’s succeeding, and everyone’s climbing up the ladder, and it doesn’t matter the successes they’re seeing, because the people who are against him are against him just because they don’t like him,” Gidley said. “And that’s difficult, and every time see a success, he’ll get knocked down as having hate in his heart.”   “As opposed to having a different opinion, as opposed to saying ‘We need to look at birthright citizenship,’ for example, let’s open debate, have a conversation, let’s send it to the Supreme Court,” Gidley continued. “Immediately he’s labeled as a racist. Immediately he’s labeled as a bigot. You never want to repeat the negativity on the charge, but let’s be honest what we’re doing here. Whenever the President does any action, he gets chided for it in those terms. It can’t just be a differing of opinion, so my advice is, as I started this answer, we need to have open and…
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