MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend abruptly announced her departure from the Democratic Party over the weekend, shocking her cohosts as she declared that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — and the handful of other Senate Democrats who had voted with him to pass the Republican-led continuing resolution — “blew it.”
Townsend worked for a number of prominent Democrats and leftists prior to her stint on MSNBC, serving as press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and then as a senior adviser first to former President Joe Biden and then to former Vice President Kamala Harris — but she said that Schumer’s move to avert a government shutdown was enough to finally drive her out.
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MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend announces live on air she’s quitting Dem Party over Schumer siding with GOP on spending bill https://t.co/08io42AIau pic.twitter.com/v8vua7aou3
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