{"id":240640,"date":"2021-03-17T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=240640"},"modified":"2021-03-17T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T22:45:19","slug":"feinstein-says-she-wont-step-down-early-if-husband-tapped-for-ambassadorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-says-she-wont-step-down-early-if-husband-tapped-for-ambassadorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein Says She Won\u2019t Step Down Early If Husband Tapped For Ambassadorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeinstein-says-she-wont-step-down-early-if-husband-tapped-for-ambassadorship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=240640&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1676.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 87, said Wednesday afternoon that she believes her husband is interested in serving in an ambassadorship position in the Biden administration, but emphasized that she doesn\u2019t plan to resign from the Senate regardless of those plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After The New York Times reported Feinstein\u2019s husband, Richard Blum, was interested in serving as an ambassador, CNN reporter Manu Raju <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1372230791846068232\">asked<\/a> Feinstein whether she was involved in any appointment discussions concerning her husband. She responded: \u201cNo, no, no.\u201d The Democratic lawmaker also said \u201cno\u201d to whether an ambassadorship role for her husband would hasten her retirement as California\u2019s senior-most senator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blum is reportedly seeking an ambassadorship position somewhere in Europe, and The New York Times, citing White House aides, reports that Biden would be open to giving him such an appointment. Furthermore, the Times suggests that such an appointment could provide an avenue to address \u201can increasingly awkward problem for Democrats,\u201d a vague description that makes it unclear whether the problem is Feinstein, the ongoing debate around Feinstein, or Feinstein\u2019s political future itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/dianne-feinstein-biden.html\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><i><span>Senior party officials have been blunt in private about what they describe as the senator\u2019s diminished acuity and are eager to replace her with a Black woman, of which there are none in the Senate after the departure of Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Progressive Democrats have also suggested that Ms. Feinstein\u2019s decorous approach was ill-suited for dealing with the increasingly acrimonious partisan politics in Congress. They were particularly upset during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justice Amy Coney Barrett last fall when Ms. Feinstein praised the way Republicans had handled the hearings. Soon afterward, Mr. Schumer and other Democrats persuaded her not to seek the leadership role on the Judiciary Committee.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>California Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who recently appointed Alex Padilla to make the transition from secretary of state to U.S. senator, <\/span><span>promised Monday that he was looking to appoint a black woman to replace Feinstein if another Senate vacancy were to open up.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.251428571429\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joyannreid<\/a>: \u201cIf Dianne Feinstein were to retire, will you nominate an African American woman to restore the seat that Kamala Harris is no longer in the Senate? And do you have a name in mind?\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gavinnewsom<\/a>: \u201cWe have multiple names in mind, the answer is yes.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheReidOut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SrQ5iGKeNM\">pic.twitter.com\/SrQ5iGKeNM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1371607946774384649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/Feinstein-not-worried-about-Newsom-s-plans-for-16029999.php\"><span>The San Francisco Chronicle<\/span><\/a><span>, Feinstein told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday that she believed people were \u201cmaking a mountain out of a molehill,\u201d and that her relationship with Newsom remains \u201cgood and strong.\u201d Newsom, who is the subject of an ongoing gubernatorial recall effort, has since called his remarks \u201chypothetical\u201d and said he expects Feinstein to serve for years and years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShe\u2019s a magnificent and extraordinary person, and I think there\u2019s been a little too much punditry around her current term. I think we all would do a lot better if we move away from it,\u201d remarked Newsom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 87, said Wednesday afternoon that she believes her husband is interested in serving in an ambassadorship position in the Biden administration, but emphasized that she doesn\u2019t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310709,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1676.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Feinstein Says She Won\u2019t Step Down Early If Husband Tapped For Ambassadorship","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1676.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Feinstein Says She Won\u2019t Step Down Early If Husband Tapped For Ambassadorship","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}