Schumer elected Senate Democratic leader
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) was elected as the next leader of Senate Democrats on Wednesday, establishing him as one of his party’s most senior officials in Washington and Democrats’ primary partisan counterweight to a Trump administration.
The New York Democrat had hoped to become Senate majority leader if Democrats recaptured the Senate majority this year, working closely with a Hillary Clinton administration. Yet the former head of the Senate campaign arm may agree with some of the new president’s priorities, including an infrastructure proposals to rebuild the country’s roads, tunnels and bridges.
“It is time for the country to come together and heal the bitter wounds from the campaign,” Schumer said in a statement.
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) will serve as Schumer’s deputy, maintaining a role he held under outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
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“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” Chuck Shumer, leader of the Democrats
Great move! That will really win back the working people who voted Trump in this election.
