Three men stood side by side, all making history: one the first Black senator from Georgia, one the first Jewish senator from Georgia and one the first Latino senator from California.
The highest-ranking Black member of Congress says former President George W. Bush lauded his role as a “savior” in helping get President Joe Biden elected to the White House.
U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Wednesday on a call with reporters that the Republican former president told him ahead of the inaugural ceremony that, if he had not given Biden the boost he did ahead of South Carolina’s primary, “we would not be having this transfer of power today.”
Clyburn says Bush went on to say that Biden was “the only one who could have defeated the incumbent president,” Donald Trump. Trump and the Bush family didn’t get along.
Clyburn’s pivotal endorsement ahead of South Carolina’s Democratic primary helped propel Biden to the nomination. Biden won South Carolina by a margin of nearly 30 points.
Clyburn, South Carolina’s only Democratic representative in Congress, is the dean of the state’s Democrats and the third-ranking member of the U.S. House.
Three Historic Senators—And One Historic Insurrection—Later, Democrats Officially Have Effective Chamber Control
FIFY!
Finally MoscowMitch is minority leader.
If only Sammy Davis Jr. had been from Georgia.
Upgrade, indeed!
I don’t know about divine intervention.Instead, I believe in Stacey Abrams and so many other Americans who helped to make this happen.
Well done.
Has anyone checked which party Joe Manchin plans to caucus with?
Yeah, I don;t trust Manchin.
W is correct. I’m proud to say I voted for Joe in the Texas primary. I knew he would be the only person that wouldn’t scare off the delicate White sensibilities on their fainting couches in suburbia.
I gotta cut a dude in money league, but considering that it’s WV,
which WV Dem keeps that seat?
which red state replaces his?
How wonderful to hear good natured laughing. I could listen to Vice President Harris all day!
Welp; to be fair, he earned it but he also owes something. Manchin needs to be kept on a short leash by making sure he’s both happy and under control. What the Dems giveth, they can taketh away…and I’m sure he’d like to keep that Chairmanship.
The 4 new Democratic Senators from the states of DC and Puerto Rico.
Please tell me this means moscow mitch has to move out of his primo office.
I heard (on NPR) that McConnell is refusing to make a power-sharing deal with Schumer unless he gets more concessions. I’m not sure what’s in play there. I do know that Mitch is not to be trusted.
Anyone know what is going on?
Manchin has made it very clear he plans on spending the rest of his term (4 years) with the democrats, which will also likely be the remainder of his senate career.
