Rep Jasmine Crockett: “I haven’t asked you a question...When I ask you a question, that’s when you answer. Otherwise, I’m talking.” Tony Bobulinski: “Excuse me?”

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[u/trueprogressive777]

Too bad Adam shift and the other corporate Democrats fucked over Katie Porter in California. Now she’s not even in government. Thanks to Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff spent 20 something million dollars getting Republicans to come out to vote in California elections to beat Katie Porter.

[u/PrimalForceMeddler → u/trueprogressive777]

That was the will of the Democratic Party as a whole, not of any individual. The party is bought and sold by billionaires and they will never allow progressives to successfully be progressive in their party. Hence the constant rightward shift of every squad member who wasn't already a centrist to begin with.

[u/ckb614 → u/trueprogressive777]

They were running against each other... What would you have had him do, try not to win as much?

[u/tinacat933 → u/trueprogressive777]

What? What happened

[u/Clammuel → u/tinacat933]

He helped to fund his presumed Republican opponent because he didn’t want the general to come down to him and another democrat. California runs an election system (all states should do the same, honestly, in the absence of ranked choice voting) where the two candidates with the most votes face off against each other in the general election regardless of party affiliation.

[u/DX_DanTheMan_DX → u/Clammuel]

I will admit I don't know the whole story and hell I guess I could look it up before commenting haha, but I think "helping to fund" the republican candidate sounds like he gave money to their campaign. I thought it was more, by painting the repub as his main opponent he gave him free marketing which raised his profile and got republicans to come out and vote. A political move for sure but not as egregious as giving money to the repub campaign.

[u/Squirmin → u/trueprogressive777]

LMAO Katie Porter lost to a Republican by 1 million votes. How many of those million votes would have voted for Porter or Lee had Schiff not run negative ads?

2.2 million people voted for Schiff and those people were not going to vote for Porter or Lee in any case. So tell me, how would those Republican voters have voted?

[u/Clammuel → u/Squirmin]

They literally helped fund the Republican opponent in order for the general to come down to one democrat and one republican because they feel more confident going against a Republican in the general rather than another democrat. But go ahead and obfuscate and pretend that it’s okay to help elevate republicans.

[u/neodymium86 → u/Clammuel]

It's not okay to run attack ads against your opponent? Cause that's what Schiff did. Those ads were sp benign. But Porter raised good money, you mean she didn't run an effective campaign?

You see, nobody actually wanted porter. She bombed with literally every racial demographic. Thats not a good candidate for a statewide office. Shes barely been in the House and thought she was entitled to the Senate seat, despite never having made inroads with the appropriate constituents or members of her own party. She should've thought about that before getting her head blown up. Now shes potentially abandoning her seat to Republicans. She's not a team player and signed her own political death with this stunt. She has the political instincts of Elizabeth Warren, and that's not a good thing.

[u/Clammuel → u/neodymium86]

You totally ignored what I said about him contributing to the funding of his Republican opponent. Which is pretty clearly what I was criticizing him over, rather than any attack ads he may have ran against Porter.

[u/Squirmin → u/Clammuel]

He didn't contribute any money to his opponent's campaign. You're just lying and mad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/02/29/adam-schiff-katie-porter-steve-garvey-california-senate-race/

The ads argue that Republican Steve Garvey — a congenial former pro baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres who voted twice for Donald Trump but won’t say if he will do so again — is too conservative for California

[u/Clammuel → u/Squirmin]

Paywalled

EDIT: I think u/squirmin literally just blocked me after their incredibly classy, thoughtful, and respectful response.

[u/Squirmin → u/Clammuel]

Sucks to suck