Chuck Schumer’s been living in fear for all of 2021.
Schumer knows New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is lurking over his shoulder waiting for her opening.
And now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just forced Chuck Schumer to do this awful thing.
One of the big reasons Chuck Schumer pushed such a radical socialist agenda as Senate majority leader was Schumer’s fear that Ocasio-Cortez would challenge him in a primary if Schumer ran for re-election in 2022.
Ocasio-Cortez made it clear she does not intend to end her career in the House of Representatives.
And Democrats believed that if Schumer provided an opening Ocasio-Cortez would jump into a primary challenge.
That helps explain the bizarre decision by Schumer to hold votes on a doomed bill to take over federal elections and expand voter fraud by loosening ballot harvesting and mail-invoting rules.
Republicans filibustered the bill so Democrats tried to trigger the nuclear option and eliminate the 60-vote threshold to end debate.
But Democrat Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin oppose any effort to weaken the filibuster.
Schumer – however – plans to plow ahead with holding these votes to show the socialist base he’s fighting to the bitter end.
“If Republicans choose to continue the filibuster of voting rights legislation, we must consider and vote on the rules changes,” Schumer ranted. “Long odds are no excuse for this chamber to avoid this important issue. Again, members of this chamber were elected to debate and to vote. We’re going to vote.”
Democrats defended the plan to force Manchin and Sinema to vote to maintain the filibuster despite the obvious political downsides.
“We’ve bowed in their direction for months. I think we’ve shown them proper respect,” Illinois Senator and Majority Whip Dick Durbin said of the effort to force Manchin and Sinema to oppose the party base on obliterating the filibuster. “I don’t know where their loyalties start and end. They can only answer that themselves.”
“There are battles worth fighting, and protecting freedom to vote is one of those battles. And even if you fail, that doesn’t mean you’re just going to give up,” lunatic leftist Hawaii Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono stated. “We need to take this vote to let the American people know where each of us stands. That’s it.”
Schumer holding this vote to avoid a primary challenge from Ocasio-Cortez flies in the face of the normal rules of politics.
Normally leadership avoids holding tough votes to prevent vulnerable members from going on the record on an issue where they will either alienate the base or swing voters.
In this case, Schumer is forcing Democrats in swing states to take a politically toxic vote in order to save his own skin.
Republicans will certainly pummel Democrat senators running for re-election in Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and Nevada over voting for the extreme socialist wish list demand to nuke the legislative filibuster.
Schumer’s holding this vote despite the fact that he knows Democrats will lose.
But Schumer doesn’t care that he’s exposing his most vulnerable members to a vote that will accomplish nothing.
Republicans only need to flip one seat to win control of the Senate and this vote could send Democrats in key races off to defeat.
However, the only seat Schumer apparently cares about protecting is his own.
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