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New California Sen. Adam Schiff wants to be more than a Trump antagonist
AP News ^ | Updated 4:45 PM CST, December 9, 2024 | MARY CLARE JALONICK

Posted on 01/03/2025 12:22:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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, was sworn into the Senate on Monday as part of a Democratic caucus that is...

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.

“I think being there and letting folks get to know me, kick the tires a bit, helps overcome some of the sort of Fox News stereotypes,” Schiff said of the conservative news channel’s focus on him as he challenged Trump in his first term. He says he also sees that outreach as a way to gain insight into Democrats’ way forward after losses...

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To: eyeamok

I’m very much aware of voter fraud in this state I live in it and very mush aware of the stupidity of many California voters.

Guess where the media gets it’s ideas form.


21 posted on 01/03/2025 1:22:21 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If he were a horse biscuit, it would be a promotion.


22 posted on 01/03/2025 1:23:43 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hmmm… “Where’s Adam… anybody see Adam?”


23 posted on 01/03/2025 1:33:31 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sen. Gargamel from New York, and Gargamel’s retarded cat from California. Two of the biggest a-holes in the government.


24 posted on 01/03/2025 1:34:07 PM PST by Mr. Rabbit
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To: rktman

We’ve been through Boxer and Finestein.

Schiffffff

Oh, @#$^$$%#W% - Censored


25 posted on 01/03/2025 1:35:12 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well he always has Rump Ranger to fall back on.


26 posted on 01/03/2025 1:40:57 PM PST by Mastador1
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Boot that bug eyed idiot off Judiciary


27 posted on 01/03/2025 4:55:28 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"As California’s newest senator, Schiff says he’s not going to shy away from familiar territory — opposing Trump when he feels it necessary."

He's past his "best by" date and they say familiarity breeds contempt - just ask Mitt Romney.
28 posted on 01/03/2025 6:47:18 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: clearcarbon

AP (Always Pathetic)...


29 posted on 01/04/2025 4:30:30 AM PST by Russ (I )
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To: mewzilla

“Deep States nowhere on the planet hire the front office appearance types for brains.”

Except that FBI spokesman lady in NOLA last week. She’s a brainiac. /s of course.


30 posted on 01/04/2025 5:16:20 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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