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House Democrats’ Rashida Tlaib Problem

‘She was well-liked when she got to Congress. A lot of people don’t like her anymore.’
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Signs and notes left outside the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 2023. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

When the House of Representatives voted to censure progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday, only 22 of the congresswoman’s fellow Democrats crossed the aisle to support the Republican-backed resolution. But Democratic anger at the lawmaker from Michigan over her comments about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—culminating in a video she created and shared recently that accuses President Joe Biden of having “supported the genocide” of Palestinians—extends well beyond the relatively small group.

Michael Warren is a politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.

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