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Rep. Cori Bush Says GOP Is Pushing Token Black For Speaker Role
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tasos Katopodis / Getty Rep. Cori Bush is currently making waves in the U.S. House of Reprensativies amid the ongoing debacle that is the Speak of the House selection process. After Rep. Kevin McCarthy repeatedly failed to gain support from his Republican Party cohorts, Bush claims that a Black Republican congressman is being used as a “prop” by the MAGA faction of the party. Rep. Cori Bush, 46, is one of the rising star members of Congress after assuming office back in 2021 and is known for her outspoken views and unwavering critique of the GOP. The Democratic Party congresswoman fired a shot toward the opposing party after McCarthy failed yet again to assume the Speaker role due to some fringe members of the Republican Party withholding their vote over ...
Rep. Cori Bush Called Out White Supremacy On House Floor, Was Unjustly Booed
Source: Caroline Brehman / Getty During the hours-long debate in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding a successful second impeachment of President Donald Trump, both sides of the aisle made their stated points. However, freshman Congresswoman Cori Bush received boos after she called signaled Trump as a white supremacist and called out white supremacy overall. In a debate that was at times tense and most certainly filled with partisan talking points on either side of the aisle, Bush, who represents the 1st District in Missouri, used her time at the podium to call out the so-called insurrectionists and placed the blame at their de facto leader in Trump. “If we fail to remove a white supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection, it’s communities like Missouri’s 1s...
Formerly Homeless, Cori Bush Pulls Off Upset In Missouri Democratic Primary
Source: Michael B. Thomas / Getty Cori Bush and her rise to political prominence came with some hardships but despite the barriers, she persisted and will soon make history. Bush will become the first Black woman to represent the state of Missouri in the United States Congress after defeating an incumbent figure whose family held the position for over half a century. Local outlet The St. Louis American writes that Bush, a single mother of two, defeated Rep. Lacy Clay, a 10-term congressman, by a count of 72,812 votes to Clay’s 68,201. Considering that their Republican Party’s primary counterparts did not tally anywhere near the votes that Bush and Lacy did, it is largely assumed Bush will be the presumed congresswoman for Missouri’s 1st District. Bush, who is also a nurse...
