Slotkin won't rule out challenge to Schumer for Senate majority leader
The ground is shifting beneath Chuck Schumer’s feet, and he knows it! Senator Elissa Slotkin is confirming what many have suspected: conversations about replacing Schumer as Senate Democratic leader are already happening behind the scenes.
Jack Pondit63A New Yorker who refused to endorse Mamdani is not the best person to lead the senate at this time in history.
StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻61Chuck has got to go! Chuck him out!
MadGreek 🧿58The NEW class of Senators have also spoken! They got elected to replace the old useless Democratic Party and replace them with fresh new ideas.
CooknColorado31i called Bennet and Hickenlooper’s offices Thursday. Urged both to vote for anyone but Schumer. We’ll see.
Mike Davis • Feed After Midnight25Even if we’re not successful we will help push leadership in the right direction. Let your voice be heard. SHARE WIDELY! mdavis19881.substack.com/p/finish-the...
Edward R. Murrow-ish 🎙️24Hallelujah. And Sen. Slotkin should be in the top row of contenders!
Noel AP18@cspalmer.bsky.social , @pnfog.bsky.social , @dogstarsailor.bsky.social - cracks are forming. Good!
MintzBuck7Nice to see this sort of talk from my other Senator.
Mitch King5Not saying he won’t be Majority Leader, but it seems there are some inside the circle of those who get to vote who are open to discussion. bsky.app/profile/cweb...
Luck2The libs are becoming sentient
Libbie Grant2This is a bloodless revolution and it’s happening across the planet concurrently. Because we are a globally connected species. Borders are a fake idea.
@JonPark552🤔 hey, it is, what it is. Schumer has to go. And he can take Hakeem with him. TrumpIsAFelon has taught us what happens when we play soft. We are bringing the wood this time around. The American Dream is back in play.
Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed endorsed Chris Van Hollen for Senate Majority Leader! Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to tell Senators: “Chris, not Chuck.”
uckfayumptray21No kings. No princes. No back room deals.
rjcass.bsky.social9Elizabeth Warren, a known bulldog who won't take crap from anyone.
Joe7Can someone close to Van Hollen please tell him he'll never be president so he actually goes for this
elizabethodr CTblueSky🦋🔆 🍀6There’s a few who should throw their name in hat. I think Chris Murphy would be a great leader. Just not sure if he feels up to it right now🤷♀️
Abby D.5Should I call my Senator Rick Scott? The guy who committed the largest Medicare fraud in history? I call other people's Senators & pretend I live in their state to be heard.
Wildcats, Bengals, & Bernie Fan4Take out Swamp King Schumer!
Riverboat Jack58This is what I have been waiting for. Call your elected Democratic senators to demand Chris Van Hollen for speaker!
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)24and 50501 joins the chorus, that's a lot of radicalized wine moms calling for a change bsky.app/profile/5050...
Drives Like a Dream6fuck yes. this is the narrative that needs to take hold. schumer's leadership is not a foregone conclusion. we still don't know who the senator from alaska will be.
Neil Pajamas5Guy got on a plane to El Salvador and strong armed the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. That's a leader.
spooky jorbo-lantern 🎃5planting stories in the nyt doesn’t really cut it anymore. enough people have seen what a capable politician looks like that you can’t really just coast on being friendly with establishment media. you actually have to use your power to help real people, not just your imaginary friends
Sophie & Rempe's 🐾 Mom ❌️👑 🐸3@murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov Chris, not Chuck!!!
Sage.Sips3I trust Dr. El-Sayed's judgement about this way the hell more than the centrists who put Shumer and Jeffries in charge
Three👁️Eyed👁️Devil👁️2As I was saying, I think Van Hollen is the guy
We're Hanging by a thread2#proudblue #demvoice1 #resist #resistance #RageAgainstTheRegime #bluecrew #protest #riseup #StopFascism
“I would love if both of them were ousted 100%.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & The Majority Report’s @emmavigeland.bsky.social discuss if progressives & Democrats have a chance of stopping Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader & Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/emma-vigel...
bdyguy.bsky.social29A vast number of voters feel that we accomplished Tuesday in spite of Schumer and Jeffries, not because of them.
Hispanic Causin Panic20Senator Colom made a great point that we should have a more geographically diverse group of leaders. Two guys from the same city doesn't make sense. Get someone from more rural areas. I think that would go far with alot of folks.
Stacey D16When a US Senator says his north star is to keep support for Israel alive in the Senate, he needs to go. Protecting rogue allies is a threat to our national security.
Nodding Onion11No more perpetual Democratic incrementalism.
Saul Youssef10When Jeffries and Schumer just assert that they will be leaders, and will represent all of us, without asking, without offering anything more than one-word slogans as a plan, that is disrespectful to the electorate and to the new members and to democracy.
Ok, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't call our reps every goddamn day until they give us what we want. This is our fucking party!
Frodo da Pirate🏴☠️8Good discussion. I still think there's no reaching across the isle with the fascists of the RAPEpublican Party, and both Schumer and Jeffries are too much in cahoots with the right wing politics. I too want them both OUT!
Richard Pace7Vigeland sums up my thougjhts in general, particularly on the "support" from AOC and Mamdani for Jeffries in light of how unlikely it is to eject him. Chuck "Don't worry, I'll always support Israel" Schumer is much easier to bounce out and should be the main target.
LA Legault ⚜️4It is fascinating to me that millions of American Democrats can express their want of new leadership and for Democrats just to tell them Hakeem Jeffries is a done deal but maybe they can replace Schumer, maybe. Like an authoritarian regime and then I remember this part:
Let’s get serious about this people! Indivisible should run a nationwide poll asking who America wants to be Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader leader. This fits into the new type of politics America just voted in!
tigerlilycarol.bsky.social11We gotta quit letting these rich white boys make all the decisions, no matter what party they represent.
4sylvester.bsky.social10A blue wave is only successful if/when it succeeds in shutting down this authoritarian regime. Americans need strong & courageous individuals who can withstand the onslaught of evil, nastiness, & blackmail that will be dished out by the WH pedophile & his racist Chief of Staff. No time to waver...
Crabby Aunt Edna7Speaker Obama!!! One does not have to be a member of Congress to become speaker.
George Wright6I don't think we'll see Epstein file release with Schumer and Jeffries in charge.
Dr Nana6Schumer's time has passed. He needs to step back and let the new voices speak. Don't need another Pelosi or Feinstein (or McConnell)
DExhaustion21)Actually the people voted for the economy and healthcare! This election wasn’t won just by Democrats. Some Republicans as well as Independents crossed over to vote for Democrats. The message was unified regarding the economy. As Lawrence O’Donnell posted:
Why do I not support Elissa Slotkin for Senate Leader? 1. Ex-CIA 2. Zionist 3. AIPAC shill 4. Voted to confirm Kristi Noem 5. Voted to confirm Marco Rubio 6. Voted for Laken Riley Act 7. Voted for crypto "regulations" written by the crypto industry 8. Voted to condemn Hassan Piker
Caroleeena379. Repeatedly voted to send weapons to Israel 10. Went on Colbert in order to skip vote on curbing weapons to Israel 11. Supports AI 12. Was ranked 5th most conservative democrat when she was in the House. 13. Does not support Medicare For All So, Chuck Schumer in a pants suit.
JB7Any three of those would disqualify her. I hab never heard of Piker before everybody started to make a stink, so I checked him out. Yes, a bit of a shock jock, but he's a smart, worldly guy and I now listen to him daily and he's pretty much radicalizedme 🤣 No commercials on Twitch, either.
Andrew Milne 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦5The confirmations have always troubled me. This is one of the Senate’s most important Constitional roles, and too many Democratic Senators bent their knees willingly to the Executive. Appeasers are the very last people you want as leaders.
elijahplovejoy.bsky.social4People, Elissa Slotkin is *not* the answer.
Jamie and the More1One question that must be asked of each potential candidate for anything in our government is whether or not they will actually help make our society healthy. Will they consult with mental health experts?
Plain White Rapper1She's a DINO? Like the republicans have RINOs?
AND saying someone needs to go without having substantive demands is how you end up with Slotkin because she's younger than Schumer bsky.app/profile/huff...
Nurseferatu1Slotkin is my rep and I have been happy to vote for her. That said, she is the best choice where I live. I am a bit torn about this since she is an insider so has a good idea how the sausage is made. But her values are definitely not progressive socialist like mine.
Tsushi Tanuki1Ewwww this would be so bad.
any ways "Mr. Schumer’s aides say he has locked down another term in that post, having secured commitments of support from enough Democratic senators to be elected majority leader in a private vote scheduled for next month."
Ben Blythe7At this point it'd be nice if they went ahead and had the vote just to shut people up. They'll find something else to doom about but it'll hopefully be less annoying and maybe the tiniest bit less racist.
Noah Deuce2Our time would be better spent calling about ending the filibuster. That’s what I’m doing!
solar100.bsky.social1Fuck the NYT- they are trying everything to support the old guard and beat back the progressive wing of the Democratic party. They are disgusting, money worshiping, oligarch owned, biased media.
Noel AP1It's too early to say what will happen. Schumer represents NY. This is the NY Times. No accident. See what Slotkin said a couple of days ago. Plus all of the freshmen Senators who've said no already. The caucus mtg is in December. He's more likely to go down than Jeffries - reading the tea leaves.
folks hate Schumer and want to replace him WITH SLOTKIN
Cornbread Countess5Everybody need to jump off a cliff
Angelle Haney Gullett3No no no no NO.
Jennifer Smyth2She talks out both sides of her mouth. I’d prefer him, and I think he needs to go.
Peter Collinson2Ugh. Slotkin is worse than Schumer. Big fat NO.
himham1Call every day. We deserve Van Hollen.
No War But Class War1“I don’t LIKE six anymore! I want HALF A DOZEN!”