Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris over the weekend for her position on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s state sponsor of terrorism.

Cotton made the remarks during a Sunday interview on Fox News while talking about how her policy toward Israel since the October 7 massacre is “an example of how she’s unprepared to be the commander in chief.”

“She immediately took at face value Hamas’ claims about the number of people killed and what they were doing,” Cotton said, noting how she believed information released by the Hamas terrorists who control Gaza’s health ministry.

“Israel has to strike on occasion at places like hospitals and schools because Hamas uses them for command and control or to fire mortars and rockets,” Cotton said. “There are civilian casualties in Gaza, no doubt, but those are solely the responsibility of Hamas, not Israel. Kamala Harris, like Joe Biden, though, have put more pressure on Israel than they put on Hamas from the very beginning.”

Cotton also noted that Harris has sided with anti-Semites in the Democrat Party who boycotted Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month when he addressed U.S. lawmakers.

“She refused to preside over the joint session, her only constitutional duty as president of the Senate, she refused to have a meeting in public with him, and she came out and again blamed Israel for the civilian casualties in Gaza, only emboldening Iran and Iranian-backed terrorists,” Cotton said. “And what did you have two days later? Hezbollah, another Iranian-backed terrorist group, shot in rockets to Israel and blew up children playing ball at a playground.

“Kamala Harris is naïve, and she’s not prepared to be the commander in chief,” he said.

Cotton also slammed Harris for falsely “implying that Israel is responsible for all the civilian suffering in Gaza, not Hamas, that Israel is the one being provocative when it’s waging a defensive war after the October 7 atrocity and that Israel is the one that should pull in its horns, as opposed to supporting Israel and standing strong against Iran and Iranian-backed terrorist throughout the region.”

Since October 7, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have put more pressure on Israel than they have on Hamas.

Their weakness only emboldens Iran and their proxies. pic.twitter.com/KBjE2h2cyW

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) August 11, 2024

George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley took aim at the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket — which now includes Vice President Kamala Harris for president and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) for vice president — saying that the pair showed a “shocking disregard for free speech.”

Turley shared his thoughts in an opinion piece for The Hill published Saturday, in which he warned that a Harris-Walz administration would be a “perfect nightmare for free speech advocates” and would likely lead to more censorship rather than less.

“Harris has long supported anti-free speech policies. The addition of Walz completes a perfect nightmare for free speech advocates. Walz has shown not only a shocking disregard for free speech but a shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment.

Harris has long supported anti-free speech policies. The addition of Walz completes a perfect nightmare for free speech advocates. Walz has shown not only a shocking disregard for free speech but a shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment. https://t.co/Cll8BaoP3U

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 10, 2024

“For over three years, the Biden-Harris administration has sustained an unrelenting attack on the freedom of speech, from supporting a massive censorship system (described by a federal court as an ‘Orwellian Ministry of Truth’) to funding blacklisting operations targeting groups and individuals with opposing views,” Turley wrote.

He went on to reference the Biden administration’s efforts to combat “disinformation” on social media by coordinating efforts to silence dissenting voices on those platforms.

“President Biden made censorship a central part of his legacy, even accusing social media companies of ‘killing people’ for failing to increase levels of censorship,” Turley continued. “Democrats in Congress pushed that agenda by demanding censorship on subjects ranging from climate change to gender identity — even to banking policy — in the name of combatting ‘disinformation.'”

Turley pointed out the fact that Harris — who has often bragged about being in the room as Biden has made the biggest decisions of his presidency — appears to have been fully supportive of Biden’s efforts to curtail speech, and then noted that the addition of Walz only served to make things worse.

Walz, who claimed “there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech,” completes “a perfect nightmare” for any American who values the protections guaranteed under the First Amendment.