I would think that the AAPI community who are advocating for Tandan would be pushing Murkowski since Alaska has a sizable AAPI along with native population along with other persuadable senators like Collins.
What’s bothering me is that he’s throwing in with the Counter Factual Party to use Rosen’s phrase. He might genuinely not like Neera Tanden’s tweets, but the opposition is based in a lie and her tweets are irrelevant to her competence.
I look at “media” (a term which I hate…I would rather say “Fourth Estate” or “The Press”) in the same light as I look at other areas like Law Enforcement, Secondary Education and Higher Education.
I have relatives in the first category, my wife is in the second and I am in the third.
All have practitioners who abuse the field by personal and structural negligence. My favorite whipping boy for the Press is Les Moonves, for example.
We were saved from Trump by the Fourth Estate, which informed us in a way that a totalitarian-regime “information” bureau would not.
All information organs (Newsmax, FOX, the networks, the print sectors) rely on patronage and I am going to do my part and not patronize lies.
I’m not really convinced she’s worth going to the mat for, given her defense of some pretty bad policy and her feud with the Sanders camp. It’s not just Republicans and conservative Dems who are pissed about her nomination.
Forget about the tweets/emails or whatever. I’ve read that she is in favor of gutting Social Security and has several other positions that are not the best.
If she is not really the best candidate then find a few more Dems to stand with Manchin. And NOT because of tweets/emails - but on substance.
I’m not sure - it shows a particular tone deafness and combativeness that is counter productive. If your goals and jobs are to work on government policy, then shooting off about politicians like she was just an internet poster is pretty self destructive.
That’s the hope I cling to with things like the Harris-in-WV food fight and even the ‘I won’t nuke the filibuster’ stance–that they are independence theater.
If a GOP vote for Tanden were “found” now, but had in truth been quietly secured beforehand, it would amount to more of the same: Manchin gets a free pass for a maverick-y “no” vote that doesn’t actually block anything.