Thread by @JakeSherman

In @PunchbowlNews this AM: @SenSchumer is leaving no room to his left

Everyone has written -- us too! -- that Schumer could face a primary challenge from his left from @aoc. Yet that seems less likely. and a fight from the left seems ill advised at the moment.

Here’s why:

→ Schumer as majority leader is a lot harder to challenge than Schumer as minority leader. Yes, Senate majority leaders have lost re-election, but it’s been a good 80 years since this happened. Ossoff and Warnock’s victories made a Schumer challenge much tougher

→ The American Rescue Plan could’ve been called the “Chuck Schumer Rescue Plan.” McConnell (R-Ky.) called it a “liberal wish list.” Sanders (I-Vt.) said it was “the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country.”

→ “In the Stimulus Bill, a Policy Revolution in Aid for Children.” That’s the New York Times headline on a Sunday night story about the $3,600 child tax credit included in the American Rescue Plan. Which Schumer helped push through the Senate. This has to delight Team Schumer.

→ Look at the bills Schumer is backing this Congress: A minimum wage increase; creation of a permanent “Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI Peoples” inside the State Department;

a major immigration reform initiative that includes a path to citizenship from 11 million undocmented immigrants (something Schumer has long supported);

a “Baby Bonds” proposal by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) that sets up a federally funding savings account for every child and is designed to close the racial wealth gap. How do you get to the left of this?

→ Schumer held a press conference recently with Warren and several members of “The Squad” -- but not AOC -- to talk about getting President Joe Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt per person. Biden has said no, but Schumer and Warren continue to pressure the WH

Put together, you have to come to this conclusion: The room to the left of Schumer is shrinking. The New York Democrat was already going to be very tough to beat. Now he’s trying to out-progressive the progressives.