WTF, CNN? "Democrats like Markwayne Mullin but that doesn't mean they'll vote for him for DHS secretary"

[Miles Archer]

Really? Democrats like him?

Democrats like Markwayne Mullin but that doesn’t mean they’ll vote for him for DHS secretary

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/politics/markwayne-mullin-congress-dhs-secretary-trump

Since coming to Washington in 2013, Mullin has built a brand on Capitol Hill as a straight-talking, former MMA fighter who is the rare partisan warrior who can tout White House talking points on Fox News and then sit down to cut the occasional deals with Democrats. The affable Oklahoman has spent decades building strong connections across both chambers in the US Capitol – which eventually helped catapult him into the president’s inner circle.

Now, Mullin is nominated to serve as President Donald Trump’s secretary of Homeland Security, a post that will require him to execute the president’s signature campaign promise on immigration, which has turned into one of the party’s biggest political liabilities heading into the midterms. He is also about to test just how much he can keep his outsider bona fides while doing Trump’s bidding.

Mullin will sit before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, just two weeks after he was suddenly tapped for the post and more than a month into a partisan government shutdown of the very agency that – if confirmed – he would run.

Now on the other side of the dais, Mullin is expected to face a grilling from Senate Democrats – some of whom have years-long friendships with him but are under intense pressure to oppose him amid the fractious immigration politics of this moment.

[displacedvermoter]

1. For fuck sake!

[SocialDemocrat61]

2. Their new logo

[Boo1]

9. Nazis because they

Said MWM has friends??

[SocialDemocrat61]

15. Yes

[spanone]

3. Dear CNN.

FUCK OFF

[tritsofme]

4. He's been in Washington for over a decade--of course he knows and works with Democrats

As the headline notes, it doesn’t mean they’ll vote to confirm him.

This thread seems like a pretty silly overreaction to a mundane observation.

[Miles Archer]

5. Yeah, well, when I think shit is silly, I just scroll past it

But thanks for sharing, and "have a nice day."

[Blues Heron]

7. If it's bullshit we call it out, you know that

Bread and butter

[tritsofme]

8. What's the bullshit? The article just seems to say some Democrats like him well enough socially

But that it doesn’t mean they’re going to vote for his confirmation.

I’m not seeing where the controversy is.

[LostOne4Ever]

11. There is a difference between:

“Will work with him when they have to”

And

“Like him”

[tritsofme]

16. Do you imagine these folks don't often have amicable social relationships

and maybe even enjoy each other’s company over the course of years?

Washington isn’t the caricature of politics that is often constructed here, it’s a club.

They can be friendly without voting to confirm him when it matters. This article seems utterly mundane.

[Blues Heron]

12. That he's a straight talker who also spews Wh talking points

Can’t be both

[Blues Heron]

6. How do you write absolute shit like this with a straight face?

a straight-talking, former MMA fighter who is the rare partisan warrior who can tout White House talking points on Fox News

Love those straight talking lies from the White House

[617Blue]

10. Never been less of a capital D democrat than I am right now

Entire response to this 2nd Tramp Regime has been incompetent.

[Ars Longa]

13. What Dem besides Fetterman is gonna pull the lever for

him?
MWM is hardcore-toxic MAGA..!!!

[Intractable]

14. Here's the exact quote from a Democrat ...

Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware told CNN. “Markwayne, although well-liked, will face a higher bar because of the job and the president, not because of Markwayne.”