Far-Left Voters Melt Down After Dems Fail To Impeach Hegseth

The Democrat Party’s base is fuming after 11 liberal lawmakers were no-shows for a key procedural vote that could have paved the way for an impeachment vote against War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The GOP-controlled House voted 211-204 on Tuesday to kill Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) impeachment resolutions against Hegseth. The outgoing Kentucky congressman was the lone Republican to oppose the procedural motion, joining all Democrats present in the losing vote.

Eleven Democrats and seven Republicans were not physically present for the vote. Had all Democratic lawmakers been present, they would have had enough votes to advance Hegseth’s impeachment effort and deliver a rebuke to the White House just one week after the midterm elections.

Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor under President Barack Obama, sounded the alarm.

“Democrats not showing up for the Hegseth impeachment vote is a giant warning sign. Forget Republicans — did Democrats and their leaders watch the election results last week?” he posted on X.

Axios reported that some of the missing House Democrats were returning from a political event about 1.5 miles from the Capitol when they got caught in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam. But that excuse didn’t sit well with the far-Left.

“Hegseth won’t be impeached because 11 Democrats didn’t show up,” Young Turks host Cenk Uygur said. “But that’s not the whole story. Hakeem Jeffries wasn’t just an incompetent leader; he told members to ‘vote their conscience.’ That’s a greenlight to miss the vote. Why? Israeli lobby wants pro-war Hegseth in place.”

Other liberal influencers identified the 11 missing Democrats on social media. The list of Democrats who missed the vote include notable names like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).

“This is a major Hakeem Jeffries fail,” leftist commentator Krystal Ball said on X. “You could have impeached the war criminal Pete Hegseth, but Dems didn’t show up to vote.”

Speaking to reporters, Jeffries struggled to contain the fallout.

“I haven’t had a conversation with anyone on the floor team about what may or may not have happened in terms of the Hegseth resolution, but this is not the end of it,” he said. “It’s just the beginning.”

Democrat drama aside, the vote marked a final and decisive defeat for Massie’s crusade against the Trump administration. On Monday, he introduced eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth over the administration’s military operations in Iran, Yemen, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. Massie had attempted to launch impeachment proceedings before the midterm elections in September, but the House adjourned before representatives could vote, The Daily Wire reported. Massie lost his Republican primary earlier this year to Trump-backed Ed Gallrein and will leave Congress in January.

Hegseth’s team hailed Tuesday’s vote as a victory. And during a press conference, the top cabinet official blasted his critics, taking a direct swipe at Massie.

“What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight, and it’s not accountability. It’s a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment,” Hegseth said. He also defended his record in the Trump administration and argued that a successful impeachment effort would jeopardize national security.

“It puts a target on the backs of American warriors by signaling that Congress will undermine their missions in real time,” Hegseth said. “This is not patriotism. This is sabotage.”

While Hegseth escaped Tuesday’s impeachment vote, he’s not out of the woods. Democrats will assume a large majority in January, and Democrat leaders, including Jeffries, have already declared themselves a “hard yes” on impeachment and vowed to “run Pete Hegseth out of town.”

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