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Such an own goal...
If Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer end up being the House and Senate majority leaders, they will enter those positions being MASSIVELY UNPOPULAR according to their favorability.
Chuck Schumer:
Favorable: 15%
Unfavorable: 68%
Net Favorability: -53%
Hakeem Jeffries
Favorable: 23%
Unfavorable: 56%
Net Favorability: -33%
This is why we need NEW LEADERSHIP!
h/t: The Tennessee Holler
@jatkin02 Nonsense. The idea that our Congressional leaders should be bureaucrats and not--you know--leaders, is a propaganda fallacy.
@mastodonmigration
Think
Druphf declared war on We, the People
Miller is his official Warlord
Let put employees approve their leadership
We hired them because we trust their judgement
@mastodonmigration i truly wonder if Jeffries and Schumer are listening. Schumer HAS to be replaced. Jeffries has done an amazing job over the past 2 years, but even do, he needs to move aside. Demds must lead with new blood.
@mastodonmigration
Yes, Schumer & Jeffries just seem to be so low energy, lack lustre, no fight, roll-over & make excuses, reach out & achieve little or nothing & all this seems to be explained by their being so thoroughly compromised by the funding money they’ve taken from corporates & AiPAC… how can they be taken seriously as leaders? Leaders in what? 🙀
@mastodonmigration You couldn't make a greater gift to the Republicans than by choosing these two "Chamberlains."
Republicans still can turn this victory against Democrats in order to win the 2028 presidential election. I am a bit worried seeing Vance and DeSantis suddenly growing a spine. Which of course they don't, because they're opportunistic little rats plotting their next move. And their next move is likely to get rid of Trump (through the 25th perhaps). 1/3
@mastodonmigration — public popularity and internal organizational power are not necessarily related. Entirely different skill sets. Speaker of the House and Majority Leader of the Senate are extraordinarily powerful roles. Perhaps more suited to assassins than celebrities.
The people who win these roles are utterly ruthless and maintain powerful whip
operations. They pay zero attention to popularity.
It’s healthy and proper that the organization test that strength periodically through open challenge. Don’t be disappointed if that fails this time. Dominance is much harder than it looks.