Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer revealed his behind-the-scenes role in persuading President Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential campaign.
“If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window,” Schumer told Biden. “But worse — you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures.”
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has backed Wisconsin state party chair Ben Wikler to lead the Democratic National Committee (DNC), following an endorsement by Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, confirmed on Friday that then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer privately urged President Joe Biden to abandon his 2024 campaign in July,
Donald Trump’s move to pause trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans awakened widespread Democratic resistance to the new president’s second term that was felt Tuesday on Capitol Hill, in governors’ offices and in the race to helm the party’s national committee.
“First of all, Chuck Schumer and Joe ... again put his country, his party, and our future first.” Wyden acknowledged on “CNN This Morning” that he and his Democratic colleagues were ...
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a longtime Democratic Party power player and former Senate majority leader, revealed his significant, behind-the-scenes role in persuading President Biden to drop out ...
Having leaned so hard on defending democracy during the campaign only to see voters narrowly choose the autocrats, Democrats were left without a unifying message, let alone a consensus messenger, to describe the new president and his allies.
Fresh off a 10-point win over Republican rival Nella Domenici, the daughter of longtime former GOP senator Pete Domenici, Heinrich had the support of his wife if he wanted to pursue a gubernatorial run. After he conducted polling, he saw a further opportunity to become his state’s chief executive.
The bill was a Republican-led effort to sanction the International Criminal Court in protest of its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Trump directive that inspired the most outrage from Adams’ fellow Democrats — the halting of federal financing for various programs across the country — drew a response from the mayor that did not tip the boat. (A federal judge on Tuesday evening paused the freeze as litigation plays out.)
Senate Democrats blocked consideration of legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court for issuing arrest warrants against Israeli leaders after failing to reach an agreement with Republicans to narrow the legislation.