The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.

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      Henry Cuellar’s success in his district in the deep south of Texas isn’t indicative of anything at all on a national level.

          • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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            111 months ago

            It’s so nice that the national party has to step in to save us from ourselves. Otherwise we might elect a progressive instead of the anti-choice candidate they prefer.

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              Is it your belief that Joe Biden is “anti-choice?”

              Because he is 100% the pick of the Dem Party

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                111 months ago

                It’s my belief that the party will abandon any principle to shut out progressives, and Coathanger Cuellar shows that.

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                  That’s silly, since there is literally a progressive Dem caucus, and it has more members in 2023 than in the past 60 years.

                  • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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                    111 months ago

                    The party doesn’t always succeed in shutting out progressives. They’re just willing to prop up anti-choice candidates if that’s what it takes. Congratulations on Cuellar.

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          Down voters apparently aren’t aware that the national Democratic party will back an anti choice candidate in order to prevent a progressive from taking the seat.