American Spectator: Xochitl Torres-Small "Should Update Her Résumé"

Above, Rep. Torres-Small "should update her résumé."

There are some Democrats who ran as "moderates" in 2018, yet came out and marched in lock-step to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's commands and voted for impeachment of President Trump this week.

Some narrowly won in districts that Trump carried in 2016. It is these Democrats who are going to be in big trouble with the electorate in 2020 because of their votes.

The American Spectator has an interesting article on these Democrats.

They begin with:

During the 2018 midterms, dozens of “moderate” Democrats won House seats in swing districts by forswearing partisan feuds in order to concentrate on the needs of their constituents. They pledged to focus less on conflict than on finding common ground with their Republican colleagues. They also modulated their comments concerning President Trump and, when the subject of impeachment arose, insisted that it would be a divisive and unproductive exercise. Thursday, however, all but two voted in favor of a hyper-partisan impeachment resolution, exposing their campaign promises as cynical lies and ensuring that the Democrats will lose their House majority in 2020. 

The Democrats, their bluster about the 2018 “blue wave” notwithstanding, have a particularly tenuous grasp on the House majority. The GOP needs to flip only 19 seats in 2020 to regain control — and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has already identified more than twice that number of vulnerable Democrats in districts won by Trump in 2016. Thursday’s vote has imperiled those weak Democrats even further by graphically illustrating that there really is no such thing as a “moderate Democrat.” Below is a list of Democrats who promised their constituents they would rise above the corrupting influence of the Washington establishment and are now likely to lose their House seats.

One such Democrat the article cites is New Mexico's  Xochitl Torres-Small who, some contend, cheated in her 2018 election victory by "finding" absentee ballots somewhere that put her over the top.

On Torres-Small, The American Spectator wrote:

Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.): Torres Small is yet another candidate who ran in 2018 as a different kind of Democrat and eked out a narrow victory over Republican Yvette Herrell in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District. Small did suggest a creative way to dodge the resolution: “The president’s conversation with the Ukrainian president must be investigated.… Designating this as an impeachment inquiry, though, has led some in the public to believe that a conclusion has been reached while … facts are still being gathered.” Yet she kept her toe on the party line during Thursday’s vote. Torres Small won her House seat by 1.8 percent in a district Trump won by 10 points. She should update her résumé.

Torres-Small lied during her 2018 campaign and continued to lie some more this week. (Go here for details.) She has proven that her word is not her bond and cannot be trusted.

To read the full American Spectator article, go here.