{"id":199394,"date":"2019-12-19T06:33:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T06:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/aoc-takes-a-swipe-at-tulsi-gabbards-present-vote.html"},"modified":"2019-12-19T06:33:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T06:33:36","slug":"aoc-takes-a-swipe-at-tulsi-gabbards-present-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/aoc-takes-a-swipe-at-tulsi-gabbards-present-vote.html","title":{"rendered":"AOC takes a swipe at Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘present’ vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hume: Impeachment hasn’t captured people’s imagination<\/a><\/h4>\n

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume on public opinion of impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <\/a>criticized\u00a0Rep. Tulsi Gabbard<\/a>, a fellow Democrat,\u00a0for voting \u201cpresent\u201d on articles of impeachment against President Trump<\/a>, saying, \u201cwe are sent here to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabbard, the Hawaii Democrat and presidential hopeful, surprised Ocasio-Cortez when she chose not\u00a0to take a side on such a monumental issue of impeachment.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was very consequential, and to not take a stand one way or another, on a day of such great consequence\u00a0to this country, I think is quite difficult,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said after the vote. \u201cWe are sent here to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gabbard skipped the\u00a0procedural votes in the morning and just as the first vote on impeachment for abuse of power was winding down, Gabbard stunned with her\u00a0lone \u201cpresent\u201d vote. She followed with a second \u201cpresent\u201d vote on obstruction of Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever we have a vote, we should vote \u2018yes\u2019 and we should vote \u2018no,\u2019\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said. \u201cVoting \u2018present\u2019 is a very tough position to be in. To not take a stand in a moment that is so consequential, I think it\u2019s quite difficult.<\/p>\n

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She continued, \u201cI’m sure she’ll be answering [questions] and discussing her rationale in the days ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ocasio-Cortez has supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2020 presidential race and suggested Gabbard\u2019s non-committal vote could be a factor in the primary election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s certainly something that voters will decide. I know a lot of Democrats and just a lot of Americans believe that this president must be held accountable,\u201d the New York Democrat\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez spoke briefly to reporters outside the Capitol after the impeachment vote as she held her green voting cards she had just used to vote \u2018yes\u2019 on the two articles of impeachment against Trump.<\/p>\n

The New York Democrat was greeted by\u00a0well-wishers wanting pictures Wednesday night, but she quickly had to bolt to an awaiting car when a couple of Trump supporters started screaming at her.\u00a0The men in red caps briefly tussled with her supporters and yelled:\u00a0\u201cShame on you, AOC,\u201d and, \u201cYou are a traitor to this country!\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabbard put out a long statement<\/a> explaining her present vote as wanting to \u201cmake a stand for the center.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wrote, \u201cAfter doing my due diligence in reviewing the 658-page impeachment report, I came to the conclusion that I could not in good conscience vote either yes or no.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gabbard added: \u201cI could not in good conscience vote against impeachment because I believe President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/gGgDfnFGgQg\/aoc-tulsi-gabbard-present-vote-impeach-trump<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video Hume: Impeachment hasn’t captured people’s imagination Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume on public opinion of impeachment inquiry. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized\u00a0Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a fellow Democrat,\u00a0for voting \u201cpresent\u201d on articles of impeachment against President Trump, saying, \u201cwe are sent here to lead.\u201d Gabbard, the Hawaii Democrat and presidential hopeful, surprised Ocasio-Cortez when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-199394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}