‘The Democratic establishment is completely disconnected from where Democratic voters are,’ one strategist told Eric Garcia, after the rebuke to the seemingly out-of-touch 75-year-old Senate minority leader
Democrats are pressing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 75, to stay out of future primaries after his 78-year-old pick for Maine’s Senate race dropped out this week, Politico reported.
On Thursday, Gov. Janet Mills announced that she would drop out of the Democratic primary, essentially clearing the field for insurgent progressive candidate Graham Platner to become the party’s nominee to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
Schumer had backed Mills, the two-term governor of Maine, for the marquee race involving the only Republican representing a state with a majority that voted for Kamala Harris.
But Mills consistently polled behind Platner despite a litany of controversies around the oysterman regarding his use of a slur for people with disabilities, and his comments on Reddit from more than a decade ago about Black people not tipping at restaurants and about sexual assault.
I try not to hate people, as a rule. I don’t want to hate anyone, but I do sometimes and I spend lots of time thinking about why that might be and how I can stop. It’s usually pretty simple. Our government makes it so, so fucking difficult to manage that.
Get fucked chuck!
He knows that. He also knows he works for Israel before the USA.
It’s his job, guys. He has a responsibility to his Isreali constituents. He takes that very seriously. Also his imaginary Trump voting couple. Weird fucking guy.
Aipac politicians should all be voted out
Politicians should be forced to retire.
Every politician should have an exit vote when they leave office, where their constituents vote whether the politician goes to prison, is executed, or goes free.
I’m sure they would start trying to make their voters lives better.
Strongly concur!
Looks like his ego is bigger than trumps? Why doesn’t he listen to what his own voters want? Geez
Better yet, just resign. 🤷
I wish Schumer would just buy a lake house, a walk-in closet full of weed, and just disappear
“The Democratic establishment is completely disconnected from where Democratic voters are,” Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, told The Independent over text message. “People are hungry for change — the institutions that got us to this point cannot be the ones to get us out of it.”
No idea if the website updated or OP edited to take the name out.
We need outside the party organizations like this to help out in primaries, they deserve the credit and traffic.
You just shouldn’t be able to claim social security while in office. I mean it’s not the problem here but it would solve so many of the world’s problems right now.
Heh. As soon as I saw she’d dropped out I thought, “Ouch. Chuck takes it in the nuts. That’s gotta hurt.”
And yes, he needs to hand off the baton already.
The Democrats, or more directly their donors, will just use PAC money to do these things, they’ll invent some bullshit names for them like how AIPAC is making up bullshit “progressive” PAC’s to do these same things against progressives who don’t align with their agenda.
Step off Chuck! And also, go step yourself!
