New York Sen. Chuck Schumer’s days as Democrat leader may be numbered.
A new wave of no-confidence in the five-term senator has emerged from Schumer’s left flank. The floated replacement is 67-year-old Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who has hammered the current minority leader for siding with crypto companies and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee among other issues.
‘I will not be supporting Chuck.’
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Schumer has been in left-wing Democrats’ crosshairs for some time now. Despite leading his party to an at least seven-seat pick-up in the Senate in the midterms, Schumer is considered by many of his co-partisans to be milquetoast and out of touch.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) previously called for Schumer to be ousted, and Democrat Senators-elect Troy Jackson (Maine), Abdul El-Sayed (Mich.),
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