The Democrat Party is falling apart. Even their oldest supporters are jumping ship.
And now this high profile Democrat abandoned their party for a truly shocking reason.
In a stunning live TV moment, MSNBC’s Symone Sanders Townsend dropped a bombshell, revealing she’s ditching the Democratic Party she once cherished, absolutely livid over Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s cozying up to Republicans on the latest spending bill.
Sanders Townsend, who cut her teeth as press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and later advised both ex-President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris, didn’t mince words. She’s fed up with her party after Schumer (D-NY) crumpled “like a paper napkin” under pressure from President Trump.
“There’s actually little that the Senate minority leader can say, and the 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say, to appease somebody like me,” she fired off to her fellow panelists on The Weekend.
“I’m about to change my registration to independent, first and foremost,” she declared, leaving her co-hosts visibly stunned as she vented her frustration at the Democrats’ epic fumble.
“I’m pissed,” she snapped, pointing out the bill slashed funding for her home turf of Washington D.C., as she sat flanked by The Weekend co-hosts Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
Her fiery rant erupted after Schumer’s announcement last week that he’d back a Republican-driven resolution to keep the government funded through much of the year—a move that blindsided many.
The 74-year-old had previously insisted Democrats were a united front against the Trump-endorsed GOP plan, even as a potential government shutdown loomed.
Schumer’s about-face ignited a firestorm among progressive commentators, Senate peers, and scores of House Democrats, leaving them seething.
When pressed on Friday about whether Senate Democrats need fresh leadership, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sidestepped any defense of Schumer.
“Shout out to High King Jeffries, though, because the congressional Democrats stayed together,” Sanders Townsend quipped, though she spared little praise for the party’s bigwigs.
“In 2024, Democrats ran on warnings that Trump was going to destroy democracy, and now that he and his team are very much in the process of doing just that, these same politicians are questioning whether or not to stand up to him and his party at one of the first opportunities they have to meaningfully do so,” she raged.
“The only opportunity, I would add, there’s not another option for Senate or Democratic or Senate Democrats or House Democrats to effectively push back. This was it! They blew it!”
“The Democratic Tea Party was born the same day that Chuck Schumer took to that podium to read that very well-crafted statement that told us he folded like a paper napkin.”
Schumer’s Friday night flip-flop came as ten other Democrats jumped ship with him, clinching the measure 54 to 46, with Trump inking it into law by Saturday afternoon.
Nearly every Republican cheered the bill, save for Kentucky’s Sen. Rand Paul, who stood alone in dissent.
The legislation keeps the government humming but slashes billions in spending, dovetailing with the massive federal layoffs spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.).
Other liberal media voices piled on, including ex-Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards, now an MSNBC analyst, who didn’t hold back.
“The reality here is there was no message, no strategy, and at the end of the day, no leadership,” she said.
“This is really a black mark on Chuck Schumer. You cannot signal on Wednesday that you want to fight, and then on Thursday, you cave. And so now Republicans know that all they have to do is play Democrats, and it will work.”
