Democrats are furious with former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s decision to publicly leave the party and announce she’s a political independent while promoting a book.
Jean-Pierre served as former President Biden’s voice to the media for more than two and a half years, and her decision to split from the party at a time when it is particularly troubled has been more than irksome to Democrats.
They not only see it as a form of a betrayal, but as an instance in which one of their own again stuck the knife in the collective party’s back, preventing it from moving forward after a terrible election.
It amounted to another bad day for Democrats, who have had a whole host of those since former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential race to President Trump.
“You know how I feel about it. This is how: What the f— are we doing?” one angry strategist said in an interview that was laced with expletives.
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