In June 2017, the Senate reaffirmed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which called on Washington to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, by a 90-0 vote.
Somehow he didn't show for the historic embassy opening, which he has advocated for decades and which kept a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump.
So the question is: Did Democrats stay home because they didn't want a Jerusalem embassy or because they didn't want to give Trump a victory for a position they once sought?
Democratic consultant and CNN contributor Maria Cardona countered that supporting an embassy in Jerusalem "In theory is very different than supporting it in reality when the repercussions were grave." She noted that former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush dropped their campaign trail support for an embassy in Jerusalem once they took office.
Which leads to the hyperpartisan pro-Trump tone at the embassy opening.
Americans and Israelis heaped fulsome praise on the American president in a way that made the event seem half campaign rally and half Trump Cabinet meeting, in which administration top guns compete in testifying to Trump's prowess.
That said, in the contest of hollow pronouncements, Trump sycophants cannot beat Democrats, whose overwhelming support for moving the embassy vanished because they couldn't abide Trump scoring a win.
https://spectator.org/did-democrats-skip-embassy-opening-to-snub-trump/
Somehow he didn't show for the historic embassy opening, which he has advocated for decades and which kept a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump.
So the question is: Did Democrats stay home because they didn't want a Jerusalem embassy or because they didn't want to give Trump a victory for a position they once sought?
Democratic consultant and CNN contributor Maria Cardona countered that supporting an embassy in Jerusalem "In theory is very different than supporting it in reality when the repercussions were grave." She noted that former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush dropped their campaign trail support for an embassy in Jerusalem once they took office.
Which leads to the hyperpartisan pro-Trump tone at the embassy opening.
Americans and Israelis heaped fulsome praise on the American president in a way that made the event seem half campaign rally and half Trump Cabinet meeting, in which administration top guns compete in testifying to Trump's prowess.
That said, in the contest of hollow pronouncements, Trump sycophants cannot beat Democrats, whose overwhelming support for moving the embassy vanished because they couldn't abide Trump scoring a win.
https://spectator.org/did-democrats-skip-embassy-opening-to-snub-trump/
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