Last night the U.S. House of Representatives voted to censure Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib. 22 Democrats voted with 212 Republicans to censure the Michigan leftist.
Tuesday night, the House of Representatives held a vote to censure Rashida Tlaib over her support for Hamas and calls for the destruction of a Jewish state in Israel. The vote was initially scheduled for today, Wednesday November 8th, but had to be moved up over alleged death threats made towards Representative Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), the House member who introduced the vote.
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22 Democrats voted alongside 212 Republicans to censure Tlaib, and 4 Republicans voted with 184 Democrats against the resolution.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offered up this defense of Tlaib, and it’s… interesting:
It is not lost on anyone how many offensive, violent, and racist things people regularly hear members of Congress say, yet virtually the only one that gets censured for her political speech also happens to be the only Palestinian American.
It does not reflect well. At all. https://t.co/LzQUtg2WbU
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 8, 2023
Only Tlaib is held accountable for saying offensive, violent and racist…
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