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8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students (www.huffpost.com)

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Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez, Marcy Kaptur, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Eugene Vindman

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[–] WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a democratic voter pick a ham sandwich over someone pardoned by Trump and has voted in line with everything Trump has asked of him since the pardon? Seems like a good opportunity to get a progressive candidate in there.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t a democratic voter pick a ham sandwich over someone pardoned by Trump and has voted in line with everything Trump has asked of him since the pardon?

The last time a progressive ran against him, the party threw everything it had behind Cuellar. This was before trump pardoned him, but after he made it clear that he was an anti-choice anti-labor pro-nra candidate. Cuellar won by something like 500 votes.

Any progressive candidate has to fight against the Democratic party to win the nomination and then if they win anyway, they have to fight the Republican candidate with a depleted war chest and no support from their own party. Or as Mamdani showed, active antagonism from their own party.

[–] WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I would have hoped there may have been active antagonism at this point. Cuellar worse than Fetterman or a Republican and squishy brained Dems still voting for him.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

As long as the party backs him up (and since he does everything party leadership wants, they will keep doing so) his district doesn't have anyone with the means to fight two major US political parties.

Not to mention, Cuellar has a documented history of corruption. I'm certain he has no problem abusing his office to kneecap opposition. After all, he's a centrist democrat.