Progressive MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend quit the Democrat Party live on air after the Senate Democrats did not do enough to stop the continuing resolution (CR).
Townsend centered her anger mostly on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Townsend, who once worked for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), said:
Billion dollars cut from Washington DC. I’m a DC resident and I’m pissed. Okay, so, there’s actually little that the Senate minority leader [Chuck Schumer] can say, and the ten Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say to appease somebody like me.I’m about to change my registration to independent, first and foremost. There’s not another option for me.
I’m just glad Townsend mentioned the eight other Democrats and the one independent (Angus King from Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats) who voted with Schumer to block the filibuster.
Townsend praised House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats for sticking together:
“Shout out to High King Jeffries, though, because the congressional Democrats stayed together,” Sanders Townsend said, although she had nothing but scorn for most major Dems.“In 2024, Democrats ran on warnings that Trump was going to destroy democracy, and now that he and his team are very much in the process of doing just that, these same politicians are questioning whether or not to stand up to him and his party at one of the first opportunities they have to meaningfully do so,” she fumed.“The only opportunity, I would add, there’s not another option for Senate or Democratic or Senate Democrats or House Democrats to effectively push back. This was it! They blew it!“The Democratic Tea Party was born the same day that Chuck Schumer took to that podium to read that very well-crafted statement that told us he folded like a paper napkin.”
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