My story today on Chuck and the left ...
How a glad-handing, graduation-speaking, fund-raising, suburb-adoring establishment tactician is embracing the wealth-transferring, rent-canceling, Green New Deal-endorsing, incumbent-toppling wing of his party
nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/…
How a glad-handing, graduation-speaking, fund-raising, suburb-adoring establishment tactician is embracing the wealth-transferring, rent-canceling, Green New Deal-endorsing, incumbent-toppling wing of his party
nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/…
Schumer is using his work in DC with top progressive leaders as political armor back home, making the case to activists and young electeds that their friends are his friends nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/… 
Schumer has significant support from NY liberals who see the value of having a New Yorker atop the Senate
But expectations for what he can deliver are correspondingly higher...
As @yuhline put it: “Every single thing I asked for, I’m going to ask for five thousand times harder”
But expectations for what he can deliver are correspondingly higher...
As @yuhline put it: “Every single thing I asked for, I’m going to ask for five thousand times harder”
Backdrop for all this is, of course, NY’s emergence as one of the primary-challengingest blue states in the country
@DavidCarlucci says Schumer looks solid but: “Any politician that’s part of the old guard has to be very concerned about a potential primary”
@DavidCarlucci says Schumer looks solid but: “Any politician that’s part of the old guard has to be very concerned about a potential primary”
Biggest question is whether @AOC runs, and there’s no sign she has decided yet. But even a less-prominent opponent could be a painful distraction for Schumer as he leads a 50/50 Senate
Possibly helping Chuck: NY left is far more focused on assembling a challenge to @andrewcuomo
Possibly helping Chuck: NY left is far more focused on assembling a challenge to @andrewcuomo
Schumer’s wooing of the left has intensified since Dems took the Senate, but he was working nearly a year ago to bring major liberal policy brains closer into his orbit on Covid crisis policy — people like @StephanieKelton @FeliciaWongRI & @MichaelSLinden
nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/…
nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/…
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