Dissatisfaction is emerging with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) among Democrats running for Senate seats in this year’s elections.
The question of backing Schumer as Democratic leader has become a new litmus test, with several candidates — even in purple and red states — pushing for a changing of the guard.
“I’ve already said that I will not support Chuck Schumer as leader in the Senate, and I’m the only person on this stage that has said so,” Illinois Senate Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) said during a January debate before her primary victory earlier this month.
Though Schumer is unlikely to face any real threat to his leadership post after November, the discontent has spotlighted the party’s lingering battle over its direction and generational change.
We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that… I have many jobs as leader & one is to fight for aid to Israel. Remember, he isn’t fighting for NYers, or for Americans, he’s fighting for Israel.
I’d like to believe that Schumer is a wily old fox who doesn’t understand the current moment, but was really good with rules and procedures in the old way of doing things.
But, my guess is that he just has some important contacts with ultra rich people who he can get to donate to the democrats in exchange for favours they’ll call in later.
Remember the last shutdown, when we had the Republicans over a barrel and almost every Democrat in the nation was like, “Finally! This is the line and we’re not backing down!” - and then Schumer backed down in return for a measly promise that Democratic issues would be ‘considered’ [completely ignored] the next month?
He’s 75, he thinks the government still works like it used to (and actually still works, lol), and we desperately need a change of leadership away from the Schumer’s and the Pelosi’s.
and before that, chickened out of a shutdown before that horrendous bill was passed in the first place.
There were some other parts to that
Removing Schumer + the rest of the center-right dems can be a very successful message to campaign on for any and all progressive candidates. I’d personally vote for anyone who promises to make this happen.
As long as we are stuck with a two party system, we need to overhaul the Democratic Party into the party that actually represents progressive voters, and that actually creates real change instead of just being ‘not Republican’. Essentially, we need to hijack the party with the name recognition it already has and shape it into something that we can be proud of, that we’ll fight like hell to keep, and that actually lives up to its name. The time has long come for us to become as organized, radical, and frightening as the right pretends we are.
I don’t think the democrats ever reckoned with the fact that a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters went for Trump once Hillary Clinton became the democratic nominee.
There’s still a very powerful anti-establishment sentiment in the US. Someone like Chuck Schumer (just like Hillary Clinton) is the core of “establishment” politics. Schumer’s been in politics for something like 50 years. You’re never going to convince people that things are going to change when he’s in a position of power.
The senator from Israel is not representative of the US - got it
Well, he represents that imaginary Republican couple from Kansas pretty well.
Hey, the Baileys are from Long Island, not Kansas!
No, but seriously, fuck this dude.
He’s not a senator. He’s a traitor. Only slightly better than the nazi party.
How is this level of ridiculous hyperbole helpful in any way?
Schumer only got his current spot because they vote on leadership a week or two before the DNC votes on chair…
So when Schumer followed the neoliberal playbook of threatening to cut off funds to home states of anyone that didn’t vote for him, it was a valid threat.
A week later, it became toothless because there isn’t a neoliberal shill running the DNC anymore.
That’s why so many Dem politicians are willing to say Schumer (and Jeffries) need replaced even if they voted for them a year ago.
The DNC changed the math.
