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.

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.

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      They thought since they do performative bullshit, politics is performative bullshit, so anyone they confirm into office also does only performative bullshit.

      • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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        14 hours ago

        I think this has a very high chance of being exactly the case, out of all the comments in this post.

        Edit: actually, IIRC, Schumer has more or less stated that it’s his plan to just let Trump off the leash, not be an opposition party at all, and let Americans get what they voted for. Basically, instead of seeing that they lost to motherfucking Trump a second time and wondering if maybe they’re the problem, they’ve decided on punishing all of the US, including their own constituents who did elect them, for not choosing the democrats.

          • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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            4 hours ago

            Trying to find it and not having a lot of luck because I don’t remember the exact quote, and variations of “Trump Schumer Poll Strategy” just leads to a dump truck of results about Schumer’s own (worse than Trump) embarrassingly bad poll numbers and articles about how pissed off democrats are with their own party. IIRC, it was on the Daily Show. I’ll update if I do find it.