Adam Schiff to be sworn into the Senate, where he wants to be more than a Trump antagonist

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 12:13 AM EST, December 9, 2024


WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Adam Schiff stood on the Senate floor almost five years ago as a House impeachment manager and made a passionate case that Donald Trump should be removed from office for abusing the power of the presidency. “If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost,” he told the senators, his voice cracking at one point.

The Republican-led Senate wasn’t convinced, and senators voted to acquit Trump on the Democratic-led impeachment charges over his dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump would survive a second impeachment a year later after his supporters stormed the Capitol and tried to overturn his defeat.

Now Trump is headed back to the White House, politically stronger than ever and with a firm hold over what will be a unified Republican Congress. And Schiff, one of Trump’s biggest foils, will be sworn into the Senate on Monday as part of a Democratic caucus that is headed into the minority and has been so far restrained in opposing the returning president, taking more of a wait-and-see approach in the weeks before he is sworn into office.

As California’s newest senator, Schiff says he’s not going to shy away from familiar territory — opposing Trump when he feels it necessary. But he’s also hoping to be known for bipartisanship, as well, after campaigning in Republican areas of his state and working to learn more about rural issues that weren’t in his portfolio in his urban Los Angeles House district.

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[JohnSJ]

1. After the way he piled on with the "drop Biden movement" didn't impress me at all. Not that President Biden should not

have run for a second term, but the way this was done was awful.

I am sorry to say this but Schiff talks out of both sides of his mouth. I voted for him in the primaries, but if I had to do it again, I would have voted for Katy Porter. She is direct, and doesn't talk out of both sides of her mouth with political gibberish. Of course I voted for Schiff in the general, but I think Porter was the better candidate.

[C0RI0LANUS]

2. I was wondering what happened to Katy Porter. We will need her in 2026 and beyond. About Sen Schiff,

history will judge if then-Rep. Adam Schiff and the other Democrats were correct in ushering out President Biden. We'll see. And I think Joe Biden is still hurt by how it happened. (I was, but I am not relevant to the issue).

Abraham Lincoln, in the middle of the Civil War with hundreds of thousands of casualties and Americans tired of the war, survived the 1864 elections.




FDR, stricken with polio in a wheelchair during WWII and dealing with hundreds of thousands of US military casualties, survived the 1944 elections.




Joe Biden, who stopped America's "Forever Wars," couldn't survive a peacetime 2024 American presidential re-election campaign.

[Polly Hennessey]

6. I voted for Katie simply because she is genuinely trustworthy.

Adam, I admit he is a nice guy but lacks the Katie strength of purpose.

[JohnSJ]

7. Excellent description. I should have analyzed the situation properly.

[PSPS]

3. I stopped reading at, "The Republican-led Senate wasn't convinced"

This is an unserious article (besides its being improperly posted in LBN.) "The Republican-led Senate" had already made up its mind to protect the head of their criminal enterprise.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. ???

And Schiff, one of Trump’s biggest foils, will be sworn into the Senate on Monday as part of a Democratic caucus

Adam Schiff and Andy Kim will both be sworn into the Senate - TODAY (EARLY, rather than January 3,2025).

Andy Kim announcement - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143352949

It's a given that the GOP mafia will protect their godfather regardless.

[Dulcinea]

5. Senator-elect Schiff, hopefully, will be there a long time.

The McFelon won't last forever. In fact, he may not last his entire term. No doubt Schiff wants to do & be remembered for more than disliking Trump.