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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Who cares": Congress' Dems say good riddance to Karine Jean-Pierre
Why it matters: Democratic lawmakers who spoke to Axios characterized her personal motives as too transparent to be a knock on the party and they don't exactly feel like they're losing their best messenger either.
- "Who cares," exclaimed one House Democrat. "It's easy for paid operatives to leave the party ... until they need something."
- Said another: "Her explanation for this move is as confusing and disjointed as her answers in her White House press briefings."
Jean-Pierre did not respond to a request for comment.
Driving the news: Jean-Pierre revealed Wednesday that she is becoming an independent after serving in two Democratic presidential administrations.
- The announcement coincides with the release of a new book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines."
- The book's description decries "blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system" and promises to delve into "the three weeks that led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision."
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/karine-jean-pierre-democrats-congress-independent
Kid Berwyn
(23,022 posts)We the People did not hear / receive the news that Biden was the best President of the United States in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
brush
(61,033 posts)Was that the hook to get the deal?
Kid Berwyn
(23,022 posts)The title sounds like her DEMexiting was premeditated: Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
It is sad that she would leave the party in order to blame the party for "turning" against President Biden.
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Deuxcents
(25,547 posts)TheProle
(3,903 posts)And, after weeks of reading here that Tapper is digging up unnecessary bones with his book, her rehash of the same era is noble, because why?
Deuxcents
(25,547 posts)If its a book on the lines of Tappers then I, too, will bash away.
hlthe2b
(112,839 posts)Just sayin...
Her comments were in response to a litany of attacking comments toward Biden--and not only from R's who want to overrule his last legislative accomplishments as well as his pardons. Plenty of Dems are (unintentionally?) enabling this with their own poorly informed (certainly MEDICALLY UNINFORMED) comments.
Prole, please rethink posting these thoughtless summaries--at least without a link to whoever made them.
TheProle
(3,903 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,040 posts)brush
(61,033 posts)someone. Unless getting the book deal requires that or course.
doc03
(38,841 posts)drop out. That is what I understand as of now. How does leaving the party change anything for the better?
TheProle
(3,903 posts)karynnj
(60,788 posts)Not to mention, if as it appears it defends Biden, it won't get readers on the right. Who will read this?
tritsofme
(19,797 posts)karynnj
(60,788 posts)they need to spend at least as much effort studying whether her feelings are similar to many in the party. I think the move to push Biden out was likely to cause bad feelings of it was a gamble that failed.
milestogo
(22,597 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(175,036 posts)Link to tweet

Here is a good interview that explains her decision
Link to tweet
I am also not happy with how some treated President Biden
TheProle
(3,903 posts)And encourage others to do so on the doorstep of a political apocalypse?
Good riddance.
LetMyPeopleVote
(175,036 posts)TheProle
(3,903 posts)I just dont respect it.
Shes not a Democrat, so I dont have to support her here. She can kick rocks.