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WeatherDem 🇺🇸 retweeted
🗳️ NEW: Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-Ohio) says he told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a 30-minute meeting that he won't back him for speaker unless Jeffries commits to ending Citizens United by 2028. Leonard says big money in politics is the root of the country's problems. Jeffries made no commitment, but told him he would “study the issue.”
Leonard, who flipped Ohio's 15th District this month, said earlier this week that senior House members warned him opposing Jeffries would mean "making my life a living hell for the next two years." House Democrats vote Wednesday on their pick for speaker.
WeatherDem 🇺🇸 retweeted
do all the people defending chuck schumer by saying he deserves credit for bringing in 9 new senators have any answer for why all these new senators do not want to back him as leader?
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Why won’t you come out firmly against Jeffries if you believe in all of this? It makes absolutely no sense. It’s actually embarrassing. He’s the walking symbol of all of these things you want to say no to. It’s almost like you think we are all stupid.
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Progressives' cowering fear of Jeffries is despicable. When I think of the courage of Palestinians in Gaza, and then I see the quivering timidity of congressional progressives terrified that Jeffries will take away their precious committee assignments, I am filled with contempt.
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Luke Thomas PUSHES BACK on Hakeem Jeffries claiming AIPAC is “taking a step back”:
[AIPAC is] just rerouting through pastor organizations and the super PAC [United Democracy Project]. They’re removing some of their public visibility in a way he’s describing, but this idea they’re not involved in campaign donations in serious ways…
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yes quite a mystery
Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman points out that Hakeem Jeffries’ first 100-day agenda makes no mention of Gaza, Israel, the Iran war or Medicare for All.
@MSNOWNews | @RepBowman
WeatherDem 🇺🇸 retweeted
Chuck Schumer was a cheerleader for the Iraq war & undermined & opposed the JCPOA. He literally sided with @netanyahu over @BarackObama!
He bears responsibility for the greatest foreign policy blunders of the 21st century.
We need @VanHollenForMD
Rep. @rokhanna stood with protesters calling for new Democratic leadership, and told them: “Schumer needs to go.”
His case: Schumer backed the Iraq War, didn’t oppose the Iran war strongly enough, supports aid to Israel, and hasn’t called for abolishing ICE.
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It’s so revealing that literally not one person has a positive case to make for reelecting Schumer and Jeffries. It’s just all inevitability and presumption and no attempt to actually make a positive argument about what they will do or about their skills. What a tell.
WeatherDem 🇺🇸 retweeted
It's possible this is true but it's also possible it's Schumer manufacturing consent. If you're from Georgia call them and tell them to support Van Hollen.
The Hill: Ally of Chuck Schumer says Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock will vote for Schumer as Senate Majority Leader.
Link to article: thehill.com/homenews/senate/…
WeatherDem 🇺🇸 retweeted
Chuck Schumer was one of the 23 Democrats who voted to confirm Sean Duffy.
Chris Van Hollen was one of the 21 Democrats who opposed him.
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I have as much sympathy for Joe Biden as he has for the Palestinian children his bombs murdered.
WeatherDem 🇺🇸 retweeted
Queen Latifah to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tonight.
She becomes the second female rapper to be inducted into the HOF.
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Quite frankly I think we should put Chuck Schumer in prison.
Chuck Schumer allies are discussing moving up the Senate Democratic leadership vote, now set for the first week of December
Link: thehill.com/homenews/senate/…
WeatherDem 🇺🇸 retweeted
Tré, can you provide a complete list of Searchlight’s funders? I’ve sent request for one but have gotten no response. Your NYT puff peice casually mentions Stephen Mandel and Eric Laufer then makes opaque reference to “a roster of billionaire donors”. Can you say who’s on it?
It’s not that we can’t. It is absolutely possible to finance a single-payer Medicare for All plan in America.
It’s that the new taxes required to pay for it would be politically toxic and massive. This is the problem they ran into in Vermont and why they scrapped the plan.
Both sides need to update their talking points here. It’s not 2016 anymore.