Top Repub­li­can unloads on rise of ‘anti-Amer­i­can’ can­di­dates head­ing into midterms: ‘You got to be kid­ding’

<div>Top Republican unloads on rise of 'anti-American' candidates heading into midterms: 'You got to be kidding'</div>

LEWISTON, MAINE — Rep. Tom Emmer, on the first stop of a 56 dis­trict blitz across the coun­try ral­ly­ing Repub­li­can vot­ers, spoke to Fox News Dig­i­tal about what he describes as an “anti-Amer­i­can” sen­ti­ment in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty and his party’s mes­sage on the economy.“We’re not talk­ing about social­ists, these are com­mu­nists, Marx­ists and anar­chists,” Emmer, the Repub­li­can House major­i­ty whip, told Fox News Dig­i­tal this week about the rise of far-left can­di­dates in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party.“You got to be kid­ding. They want us to call them demo­c­ra­t­ic social­ists, there’s noth­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic about these people.“Emmer, who was in Maine cam­paign­ing for Repub­li­can House can­di­date Paul LeP­age, specif­i­cal­ly took issue with Democ­ra­ti …