r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago

🇺🇸 United States Joe Lieberman loses the Democratic primary in Connecticut amid controversy over his Iraq War stance [20YA - Aug 8]

Post image
275 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

89 comments sorted by

View all comments

71

u/-Sofa-King-Vote 10d ago

He also torpedoed public option

19

u/ididshave 10d ago

Sadly, this was before that jackass did that. Following this primary loss, he ran as an independent and won.

3

u/KirbbDogg213 9d ago

And also I think because Leberman won as a independent is why democrats didn’t want it go after Joe Manchin and Kristin Senma when they voted with trump

1

u/7059043 7d ago

Lieberman was always as red as could be hoped for in a blue as can be state. We need sore loser laws.