1. United States
2. Calif.
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I just remembered that Jeffries was lukewarm at best about Congressmembers following (*following*) Chris Van Hollen’s lead (*lead*) in going to El Salvador during Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s unconstitutional rendition to CECOT. Reportedly he even called for the trips to stop, though he denied this. Now Van Hollen is challenging Schumer for Senate Majority Leader, and that trip to El Salvador - which got Abrego Garcia out for at least the day when people were wondering whether he was even alive, and was straight up heroic I have to say - is 1,000,000% the reason why he’s in the running and has my support. I know this isn’t a Frank Capra movie and there’s bound to be some terrible catch to him (like his support for a middle class tax cut when that idea was going around Democrats for a minute - just tax the ultra rich/criminals), but at the very, very least, Van Hollen demonstrated the political instincts a leader needs to have. Not Schumer and not Jeffries. Schumer has, again, repeatedly pretended to be fighting the Republicans while actually orchestrating elaborate ways to cave on reconciliations while personally saving face, and Jeffries clearly didn’t think this last impeachment vote against Hegseth was an important party line vote or he would have delivered the caucus like he repeatedly did on those same reconciliations. It’s not that these guys don’t win, it’s that they prevaricate and don’t really care about the public interest so much as their careers that’s had Dem approval close to Trump’s the last two years. Please express your support for Van Hollen to lead the Senate, and for a competitive selection in the House as well - Lauren Underwood would be great though I doubt she’d want to disrespect Jeffries, Maxwell Frost is young and new but extremely promising and also went to El Salvador. Look there’s lots of choices, just don’t act like the presumptive heirs have the mandate from last week.