Republicans criticized Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush Thursday after the St. Louis Democrat said a Black Republican was being used as a “prop.”
FILE – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, file)
The following day, North Carolina Republican Rep. Dan Bishop accused Bush, one of two Black lawmakers representing Missouri in the House, of racism.
“I’ve spent a lot of time with Mr. Donalds, especially lately,” Bishop said. “He ain’t no prop. And if he were a prop, he wouldn’t be sitting where he is sitting. This is the tired, old, grotesquely racist rhetoric that we’ve seen far too long.”
The comment comes as tensions between Democrats, Republicans and the faction of Republicans opposing McCarthy ratcheted up with each subsequent gridlocked vote for speaker.
Over the course of three days, the votes have largely remained the same, with 21 Republicans objecting to McCarthy as speaker. On Thursday, when the House held its seventh vote no candidate garnered the 218 votes necessary to win the speakership.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has support from all 212 Democrats, while the Republican vote was split with 201 votes for McCarthy, 19 for Donald and one for former President Donald Trump. One House Republican voted present.
Jeffries is the first Black lawmaker nominated to serve as speaker. Donalds, who is entering his second term in the House, became the second when hard-right Republicans offered him as alternative to McCarthy during the second day of voting.
Donalds’ supporters framed it as a historic moment, prompting a denouncement from Bush, whose political career followed her involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement.
“[Donalds] is not a historic candidate for Speaker,” Bush said on Twitter Wednesday. “He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy. His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic.”
Bush’s tweet came after Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy invoked civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech nominating Donalds on Wednesday.
“However, we do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin, but rather the content of their character,” Roy said.
The comment set off an audible groan from Democrats sitting on the other side of the chamber. A scattered few stood up to applaud, with one of the members shaking his head while he clapped.
After Bishop denounced Bush on the floor, she doubled down on her comments. On Twitter, she commented on an interview with Fox Business, saying he was not supporting the Black community.
“Working to overturn the 2020 election & embracing Trump MAGA fascism is not you rising, Byron,” Bush wrote. “You’re being used. It helps you politically at the expense of our community. THAT’S what’s shameful. It’s clear which party promotes white supremacist chaos and which works against it.”
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What could we say about Cori Bush? How does she justify her membership in the party that was dominated by slave owners, formed the KKK, kicked black people out of office after Reconstruction, wrote the Jim Crow laws, voted against the Civil Rights Acts. The first black office holders were Republicans until those white Democrats got back in power! Don’t lecture, Cori!
She’s a rabid libtard.. OF COURSE she’d be a member.
It has been perfectly clear from the start that Cori Bush follows the “Communist Manifesto” she is an absolute “Black Nationalist” & “Black Supremacist” whom carry out the Communist Manifesto on a daily basis!
She an obvious RACIST and bigot. Just like the new SCOTUS “justice” Jackson. These people do NOT have two communicating brain cells.
The only thing being perpetuated is terminal stupidity by Cory Bush
IMO its not stupidity, its flat out evilness.
You just can’t win with these idiots!
Cori Bush will say anything about anyone to advance her own supremacy! It’s NOT about racial issues or any preconceived form of dominance as much as it is about divisiveness to gain power.
Talk about keeping black folk on the plantation, looks like Cori Bush is ready to pull out the chains and bull whip. Nothing like coopting the color of your skin so you can oppress the free thinkers within your race. There isn’t anything that reflects freedom in Cori Bush’s attacks conservative blacks, instead it screams totalitarian.
They act like Crabs in a barrel.. Always grabbing the one above them, DRAGGING THEM BACK DOWN.
There is absolutely systemic racism in America. It’s called the DemonRat party! Apart from them, racism is almost nonexistent.
Want to cure racism in America? Get rid of the DemonRats.
Apparently, Cori thinks that all blacks HAVE to think like a commie, or they just ain’t black. (I think I heard that from a certain brain-dead politician)
ALL democrats think like her..
If you’re a female, you MUST vote D (for abortion), otherwise you’re not a woman
If you’re latino, you must vote D (for illegals). Otherwise you’re a white supremacist
If you’re black, and so on…
Cori Bush is a living testament to destructive Cancel Culture; Marx and Alinsky Reaction 101.