Drop Siteโs @JulianAndreone pressed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) on her supporting Hakeem Jeffriesโ bid for Speaker of the House.
Jeffries has explicitly said he does not support Medicare for All, has routinely supported sending aid to Israel, even throughout the genocide in Gaza, and has yet to commit to blocking any and all funding to continue the war in Iran.
Ocasio-Cortez said progressives will seek to secure concessions on these key policy differences but that she believes the margin is too large to contest his speakership without a challenger.
@lukeisamazing I honestly think they are trying to make her the face of this type of thing. They know she will get asked about the progressive/populist stuff failing and she will never make a strong statement on it
@kenklippenstein They are nuking all the momentum they had from just a week ago faster than anyone could have predicted. Canโt wait for two years of this shit. Also, Trump is going to take the obvious pivot that the Democrats are responsible for the war in Iran continuing, and it will work
Tonight, House Republicans used a procedural motion to kill the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, by referring it to the Judiciary Committee.
Like other Members of Congress, Rep. Stansbury was blocked from entering the Capitol to vote due a traffic incident and a police escort of a bus during the vote. When she reached the chamber the vote had just gaveled out. She immediately filed a report of her vote of โNOโ to the motion meant to kill the impeachment articles and refer them to the Judiciary Committee, as documented in the Congressional Record.
Pete Hegseth must be impeached now.
@Acyn I am hoping she has completely nuked her chances at any greater political ambitions in less than a week since the mid terms. Soft as baby shit, immediately folds to donor class pressure, not fit to lead anything at all
@krystalball Never voting for these people again. It took less than a week to completely destroy any momentum they had going and remind everyone that are the party that started a genocide. Might vote Republican just to spite them
@riley_rogerson I am str8 up vote Republican for the first time in my life in 2028 just spite these fucking stooges. They are fucking this up soooo bad
@pelositracker Almost like there is a huge and dangerous AI bubble that has been propped up by the current administration and the tech oligarchs and that literally the guy from the big shirt has been predicting for years