Gillibrand Says She's Giving 2020 Run A 'Long, Hard Thought Of Consideration'

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169. I dont see anyone going after any of the others, they all worked in unison for weeks

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Kamala Harris of California, Patty Murray of Washington and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin kicked off the stampede on Wednesday, all putting out statements within minutes of one another saying it was time for Franken to go.

Within the next 90 minutes, 16 Democrats -- 10 of them women -- and one Republican senator -- Susan Collins of Maine -- had publicly urged their colleague to vacate his seat.

Women Democratic senators had been talking behind the scenes for at least the past week about how to deal with Franken, multiple aides told CNN.


If Gillibrand truly is that powerful that she can, (from a non top leadership position) cause every single Democratic Caucus Senator, save Manchin (and the 4 listed above who did nothing one way or the other due to legal issues) to help oust a powerful fellow Senator, then we would be crazy to not run her against the white nationalist scum Trump.

It is selective, revisionist scapegoating, and the rat pack mentality on here (ironically mirroring the very thing almost all our Senators did to Franken) that slurs and slams a really solid Democratic female Senator and turns her into a Two Minutes Of Hate-style demon is so so very sad for me to see.

Some of the comments I have seen here since I joined venture into 'burn the witch territory'. It's disgusting to see.

Edited to add:

There is zero chance that our leadership, especially Schumer, didn't know what was going on, and approve. Either that or they are so out of touch and utterly ineffectual at controlling our own Senatorial Caucus that they deserve to be removed and replaced post haste.