‘I’m pissed’: Watch network news star abandon Democratic Party

By Harold Hutchison

MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend, a former Democratic operative, said she would be registering as an independent Saturday in response to Senate Democrats helping to pass a funding bill.

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York has come under fire from left-wing media figures and Democrats in Congress over his decision to break a filibuster of the GOP-backed spending bill. Sanders Townsend, a former Biden administration official, said Schumer’s decision was a deal-breaker for her.

“I’m pissed,” Sanders Townsend said at the opening of Saturday’s episode of “The Weekend.” “There’s actually little that the Senate Minority Leader can say, and the ten Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say, to appease somebody like me. I’m going to change my registration to independent.”