‘Rahm Emanuel main the Democrats is a nonstarter’
Laura Washington on the Chicago Tribune
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel is “despised by progressives in every single place,” says Laura Washington, and his “trial balloon has the get together’s left flank flabbergasted and livid.” Emanuel operating the DNC is a “nonstarter, primarily based on his mayoral observe file alone” and his “resolution to shut practically 50 Chicago public colleges, in addition to half of town’s psychological well being clinics, most serving African American and Latino communities.” A “DNC perch for Emanuel must be useless on arrival.”
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Lisa Gordon-Miller at Newsweek
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The Washington Put up editorial board
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‘He has already fathered many youngsters. Now Musk desires all the US to embrace excessive breeding.’
Arwa Mahdawi at The Guardian
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