MI-13: 'Squad' member Tlaib may be vulnerable in tough primary
Rep. Rashida Tlaib had been in Congress for a matter of hours when she was seen on video telling supporters that she and other Democrats were going to impeach President Donald Trump, using an expletive rather than Trump’s name. The room full of activists cheered, but some people back home — and in Democratic leadership — were not pleased.
It wasn’t the last time Tlaib’s approach to governing — an unapologetic fighter, taking aim at the status quo alongside three other first-term congresswomen of color who make up “the squad” — would make her a target, both of the GOP and her own party.
And every time, Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones says, agitated constituents would call and encourage her to challenge her fellow Michigan Democrat to a rematch of their 2018 battle for the party’s congressional nomination. Now Tlaib is the squad’s most vulnerable member, as she and Jones are set to square off again in Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary.
The contest points to the broader debate in the Democratic Party between the establishment and largely younger, more progressive activists, as well as the racial dynamics of a heavily Democratic Detroit-area district at a time when racial injustices are getting renewed attention. To Jones, it all boils down to one thing for a district that is among the country’s poorest: who can “bring home the bacon.”
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out women they just elected last time in favor of male competitors this time. But if Rep. Tlaib loses to Rep. Jones, also now known to their constituents, it'll likely to be because Jones really is a better fit for the district.
Perhaps Tlaib's booing Hillary last summer was not a wise move, even if Tlaib sees it as being honest. Probably no one doubts that, but current events are putting a spotlight on our endangered democracy under Trump and McConnell. As we approach November 3 with real fear, this all might conceivably remind constituents who voted for Hillary of both the attempted and then the successful election theft that ultimately kept her from being sworn in as our president.
I prefer congresswoman to -person if a longer form is used, but whatever floats our boats, right?
