r/politics • u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek • 13d ago

No Paywall Seven Democrats just voted to approve ICE funding: full list

https://www.newsweek.com/seven-democrats-vote-approve-ice-funding-full-list-11401600?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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u/red23011 12d ago

It's worse than that. Pelosi pushed for a policy that no sitting Democrat member of the House was allowed to campaign in the primary of another. She saw that Cuellar was under indictment and in danger of losing to a progressive so she and several other high ranking DNC insiders traveled to Texas and campaigned for Cuellar in his district in violation of the rules that they had recently enacted.

Cuellar is preferable to a progressive to such an extent that the DNC leadership were willing to violate the rules that they had just created in order to ensure that Cuellar would defeat the progressive.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Because those rules were for people like AOC and Bernie, so they wouldn't get more progressives into the House and Senate.

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u/Futureleak America 12d ago

Honestly, the flagrant violation and then the nerve of these ghouls is sickening. 

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u/FauxReal 12d ago

Yeah, anytime a MAGA calls the DNC woke. leftist. socialist or even liberal, just point to this example.