AOC calls people like me, right for supporting Abdul El-Sayed over Haley Stevens in the primary as she has no "mental model" for people who would do that. I knew because I lost to her in 2018 while my Dad was dying and passed of cancer. I did sense something very very wrong.
AOC says Haley Stevens has been with the Republicans ever since she’s come back and calls her endorsement of Mike Rogers the epitome of transactional politics:
“This isn’t just about endorsing a Republican, this is about voting against every woman’s right to choose. This is about keeping the minimum wage at less than a living level. To use the Black church as the venue for doing that, it’s beyond disrespect”
#SenateLeader Breaking: Chris Van Hollen announces on @MSNOWNews that he is challenging Chuck Schumer. I think the people voted for change. Van Hollen will defund the war. Reverse Healthcare cuts. Schumer did a lot in the midterms but it was the People who did the heavy lifting.
@PollTracker2024 Because she was 1 of 11 AWOL Dems on the Hegseth vote today. She and Nancy Pelosi, whom Stevens vowed to oust if she was elected. (Of course she didn't try).
So rich. In 2018 when I was in the primary with Stevens, she pledged to oust Nancy Pelosi. AND now they both were AWOL on the Hegseth vote. Can't make this up!
Nancy Pelosi on Kicking Haley Stevens Out of the Caucus:
We have a few more weeks of being in Congress, so I don’t think we should start making judgments about anybody in the caucus at this point.
I was disappointed. I conveyed that to her. I want to be helpful to her in terms of how she deals with this, but I’m not supporting kicking her out.
Let’s focus on the very positive
@DrT_Crit_Think@ChrisVanHollen@RepJeffries@SenSchumer Jeffries should have made those 11 Dems show up and vote yea or nay today. Instead Haley Stevens hiding in the GOP cloakroom and Nancy Pelosi, of all people ever, skipped this vote. The people voted to end the damn war. Get it done.
Centrists are warning Dems? Did I hear that right? Was that a Centrist Wave? Not in MI. Haley Stevens is literally in the GOP cloakroom BUT abstained from the Hegseth vote...
https://t.co/PPvL34g1Ka
Breaking: Bernie Sanders announces he won't support Chuck Schumer. and Elissa Slotkin says she wants it in writing... Will candidates please raise your hands ✋️
Kyle Kulinski: “Every Democrat who won in the Senate across the country should send a f-ing bunch of flowers and a fruit basket over to Abdul El-Sayed. Why is that? Because Abdul El-Sayed took ALL of the slings and arrows that protected other Democratic candidates throughout the country.”
Pablo Torre & Rachel Maddow on El-Sayed & JD Vance
Maddow: When he called JD Vance habibi, I lost it. The refusal to exceed to their framing is a a political flex that if done elegantly is politically bulletproof.
Pablo then asks Maddow about JD Vance's post-election tweet: "It sounds like JD Vance might have been listening to Democratic politicians who are running for high office this year and winning"
Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed reflects on former President Bill Clinton telling him to go into politics following his speech at his 2007 University of Michigan graduation.
https://t.co/Slz7zBhvQo
“Well, I think the dominant unifying issue in almost all of these races was about energy, because energy costs were the things that were smacking people right in the face every day they drove up to the gas pump and every time they paid utility bills.” —@JayInslee
https://t.co/GSOGfwrfpX
Senator-elect @AbdulElSayed responds to the Islamophobic attacks against him: “You can talk about my name and my faith all day if you want to. But they’re not the reason you can’t afford gas or you can’t afford your groceries, not the reason you can’t see a doctor.”