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.

  • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    To your latter point- if people show up to vote at all they don’t usually show up to primaries.

    Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which fills up first. People aren’t voting every single election and just hoping someone great shows up. Well newsflash- you gotta show up first.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 day ago

      To your latter point- if people show up to vote at all they don’t usually show up to primaries.

      And this is the problem right here. You should be voting at least once a year and paying fucking attention to who the candidates are and their platform