Tammy Duckworth is Campaigning to be Biden’s VP and That’s a Good Thing

Caren White
3 min readJul 16, 2020
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Tammy Duckworth is suddenly on everyone’s radar thanks to her feud with Tucker Carlson which resulted in her scathing editorial in the New York Times. Senator Duckworth has been on my radar for some time.

She popped up in my Facebook feed in June seeking signatures for her petition to prevent Trump from being buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

What?

I did a little research and it turned out that the Trump administration is trying to change the rules for who can be buried at Arlington. Sen. Duckworth is sponsoring a bill that will prevent any president or vice president who has never served in the military from being buried at Arlington. Of course Trump wants to be buried at Arlington. He wants all of the glory with none of the sacrifice. I believe that if he were buried at Arlington, all of the dead heroes already buried there would rise up out of their graves, dig him up and toss him into the Potomac.

A few weeks later, Sen. Duckworth announced that she was going to hold up military promotions until she got assurances from Defense Secretary Esper that Lt. Col. Vindman would not have his promotion denied because he testified at Trump’s impeachment hearing.

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Caren White

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