A New Jersey Democrat is refusing to resign after a post-Election Day tweet referencing Abraham Lincoln’s assassination surfaced Wednesday.
Chris Emrich, a member of the Collingswood Progressive Democrats, made what he claims was a “stupid” remark when responding to critics of The Lincoln Project, a committee of Republicans against the reelection of President Trump, according to a copy of the tweets obtained by Fox News.
After a Twitter user dubbed the group the “Stinkin’ Project” Emrich replied, “need a John Wilkes Booth Project imo,” according to a copy of the tweets. Emrich’s tweet is a reference to the man who assassinated former President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in April 1865.
Shortly after the comments surfaced, however, Camden County’s Democratic Committee called for his resignation because his tweet was both “disgraceful” and “dangerous.”
“The idea that someone would apparently threaten the life of a sitting President, regardless of party, is unconscionable, dangerous, and antithetical to our democratic values,” Camden County Democratic Committee Chairman James Beach told Fox News in a statement.