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| Jamaal Bowman and Byron Donalds exchange friendly words. |
Rep. Bryon Donalds (R-FL) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) have a lighthearted debate that went viral. Even. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) had to troll the two to keep them from allowing the junk food media turn it into a gotcha game.
Donalds, originally from Brooklyn moved to Florida. He used to sell weed back in his teen years. He was arrested for bribery and fraud when he tried to cash a check that was fake.
He had a choice, face years in the iron college or change his life. He took to religion and started mentoring programs. He was originally a Democrat but found a Fox. The far right network was hyping the Tea Party Movement and encouraging Americans to oppose Barack Obama. Donalds soon felt that Obama didn't do enough on criminal reform and I guess that led to his conversion to the far right lawmaker he is now. He ran for Congress in a safe Florida Republican district after Francis Rooney retired. He won by 35 points. Now in his second term as a lawmaker, Donalds was floated as a potential senator, a House Speaker and future governor.
Bowman is a lawmaker from The Bronx. He was an unlikely winner of Democratic primary where he defeated longtime lawmaker Eliot Engel. He aligns himself with the far left. He allies with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX).
He is former educator. Bowman is the founder and former principal of the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, a public middle school in Eastchester, Bronx. He is a member of the Lower Hudson Valley chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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| Despite the political disagreements, they still maintain a brotherhood of Blackness. |
Carson is the grandson of the late Juanita Carson. He won a special election to fill her term. His district is heavily gerrymandered to only include parts of Marion County where Indianapolis overlaps a majority of the county.
He is a Sunni Muslim and one of three in Congress. He along with Omar and Tlaib are staunch opponents of military aid to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. They support the rights of the Palestinian people.
He is a moderate Democrat and one of two in the mostly Republican state of Indiana.
Bowman and Donalds debate over Biden, Ron DeSantis and Washed Up 45.
“It’s cool to have two people from my state be president, I don’t know about New York, though. That’s all I’m gonna say,” Donalds says at the beginning of an argument caught on video outside the Capitol.
“Who in your state could be president?” Bowman quickly clapped back.
“DeSantis? Bullshit. Come on man. DeSantis doesn’t have a shot, he’s a white nationalist. He’s anti-gay, he’s anti-woman, he’s anti-Black. There’s no way he could be president.”
Donalds immediately told Bowman to “stop that” and that DeSantis was not any of those things.
Bowman then asked Donalds who was the second Floridian he thought could be president.
“That’s Trump and Ron,” replied Donalds, referring to the former president and longtime New Yorker who now resides most of the year in Florida.
“So Trump claims Florida now, not New York?” Bowman asked, with some incredulity. “Bye, Felicia. Both those dudes going to get crushed.”
“By who? The man at 1600? Oh, please,” said Donalds, referring to President Biden and the White House’s 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. address.
“Biden passed three bipartisan pieces of legislation after an insurrection, during a global pandemic opened back up the schools, killing the game! DeSantis ain’t even — Biden will wipe the floor with DeSantis,” Bowman said.
But Donalds brushed Bowman off, asking, “In what world? Bizzaroland?” He added that he could list DeSantis’s successes too if given the time.
The back-and-forth between the two was a courteous exchange, with both lawmakers smiling and laughing with and at one another.
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