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.
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.