India, March 17 -- Symone Sanders Townsend announced her decision to quit the Democratic Party during a live broadcast of her MSNBC show. The 35-year-old, who was a senior adviser for both former President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, explained that she was done with her party because she is "pissed" at Chuck Schumer for siding with the Republicans on the latest spending bill.

"There's actually little that the Senate minority leader can say, and the 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say, to appease somebody like me," Townsend said on the latest episode of The Weekend.

"I'm about to change my registration to independent, first and foremost," the longtime Democrat added as she explained that she's quitti...