A Republican senator’s husband is getting flamed on social media after he appeared to swerve Vice President Kamala Harris’ handshake throughout Friday’s swearing-in ceremony.
A video reposted to social media exhibits Sen. Deb Fischer’s husband, Bruce Fischer, refusing to shake Harris’ hand after the outgoing vp swore within the senator for her third time period.
The trade started with Harris main the senator to recite the oath of workplace. The 2 ladies then shook palms. When Harris turned to Fischer’s husband, nonetheless, he solely nodded in return. They then posed for an—er—awkward photograph op by which it’s clear that neither Harris nor Fischer’s husband needs to be there.
Possibly that wasn’t obvious to the senator, although. She posted the image of her and her husband—who stored a protected distance from Harris—to her social media.
“Together we will continue to stand tall for our shared values and take care of our people. We will protect this nation,” Fischer mentioned. “We will build a stronger Nebraska. And we will secure that brighter future for our children and grandchildren.”
Naturally, the clip—and Bruce’s stoic expression all through the ordeal—elicited a number of reactions on the web, starting from these praising his snub to others describing his conduct as tasteless.
In a single submit, best-selling creator Don Winslow referred to as Bruce’s actions “disgraceful.”
“It’s disgraceful that Bruce Fischer, husband to incoming GOP Senator Deb Fischer, cannot muster a few seconds of class to shake the hands of @VP Kamala Harris. States,” he wrote. “IMO, only thing Bruce showed here was that pigs don’t only live on farms. He is a pig.”
Progressive YouTuber and MSNBC contributor Brian Tyler Cohen echoed an analogous sentiment.
“The level of class you can expect from MAGA,” Cohen added.
Fischer gained a hard-fought reelection battle in November by which she dashed Democrats’ hopes of retaining management of the U.S. Senate. That month, she eked out a win over impartial Dan Osborn, who might need caucused with Democrats if elected. Fischer’s win helped Republicans clinch management of the Senate.
Her husband’s grandstanding is exceptional, partly, as a result of his spouse wasn’t even hardcore MAGA till just lately. Like another Republicans, Fischer referred to as on Trump to step down from the Republican nomination in 2016 after a video of Trump making very lewd remarks about ladies surfaced.
Nonetheless, Fischer modified her tune days later and endorsed him for the presidency that very same yr. Fischer additionally publicly backed Trump over Harris in final yr’s race.
Trump, for his half, appears to be a fan of Fischer, but it surely’s potential that his endorsement of her reelection bid had much less to do along with his affinities for the senator and extra to do along with his worrying Republicans would possibly lose a seat within the higher chamber.
However regardless of the motive for Bruce Fischer’s actions, the viral second got here underneath a large specter of irony. In any case, Democrats have gone above and past to level out that they’re following the democratic course of and dedicated to a peaceable switch of energy to a gaggle that attempted to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election. There’s additionally one thing to be mentioned about the truth that the video of Bruce’s snub went viral on the fourth anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, of all days.
That was the context by which the apparently MAGA-loving husband of Sen. Fischer refused to do a courtesy handshake with the nation’s first feminine, first Black, and first Asian vp.
Welcome to Trump World 2.0.
