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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.
“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”
Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.
You guys didn’t even get a primary last election lol they just picked Harris for you.
That’s false. 48 states held a democratic primary. Only Delaware and Florida didn’t. Biden won something like 87% of the vote, it was a landslide. Then he stepped down and put his VP in. Had someone else won those 48 states, Harris would have never been on the ballot. If they did hold a vote in Delaware (Biden’s home state) and Florida, the results would be the same.
Wait really? Because I didn’t hear anything about that. Mind you I’m in Canada.
From those 48 states:
Bit of extra information. New Hampshire didn’t want to hold an official presidential primary for democrats so they didn’t put Biden on the ballot. As a write in he still wiped the floor against his opponent who was an option
We did get a primary, I voted for Dean Phillips. It was a bullshit primary because they lied about and covered up Biden’s condition until it was too late to do anything about it, but we did have one.
The goal of primary is to grow the progressive wing as much as possible and eventually split to just being progressive. Even if we don’t get to that point we are a real threat to spoil, so we would get taken more seriously.
Bit late at this point tho. Now we have a bigger and more complicated fight without clear goals and leadership. Which is needed to follow up protests.