Joe Biden Has No Plans to Work With the Left.
Joe Biden’s transition team is vetting a handful of Republicans for potential Cabinet positions — despite doubts it will win him new support from the right and the risk it will enrage the left.
Reaching across the aisle to pick senior members of his administration could shore up Biden's credentials as a unity candidate, a message he's made a cornerstone of his campaign. Past presidents including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have all done the same. But that tradition died with President Donald Trump, and liberal Democrats are already warning that a Republican pick, even a moderate one, could sow distrust within the party before Biden even takes office.
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“This plays to Joe Biden’s comfort zone,” said one former Republican member of Congress who is close to the Biden transition. “If you’re Joe Biden, of course you’re going to want to expand your base a little bit, show some outreach to the other side.”
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“I don’t understand why someone who says, ‘I am the Democratic Party,’ would then hand benefits to someone who’s not a Democrat,” said Jeff Hauser, director of the the Revolving Door Project, a left-leaning advocacy group he founded in 2015 to scrutinize executive branch appointees.
I hope that everyone who thought that Bernie Sanders, AOC and (ugh) Elizabeth Warren would have some influence in a Biden/Harris Administration will now wake up. I hope everyone who cut Tulsi Gabbard some slack for endorsing Biden seconds after she dropped out will now wake up. I hope everyone who believed in unity commissions, Any Blue Will Do and "We'll push him left after he's elected" will now WAKE UP.
Don't blame the Left if a Democrats lose the House and/or Senate in 2022. Don't blame them for supporting or joining third parties. Just don't.
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