Chris Van Hollen has announced that he will be challenging Chuck Schumer for the role of Senate Majority Leader.
Count me on the side of Van Hollen.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) is trying to become the first Democrat to oust his party’s leader in Senate history — and he’s facing a tough climb.
Van Hollen got a standing ovation Friday when he addressed a Democratic gathering in Denver, declaring that he wanted to go “toe to toe with the president to take on the fights that are too important to lose.”
But nearly 24 hours after Van Hollen announced that he would challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) to be Senate majority leader in the next Congress, just four senators committed publicly to backing him.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan), who said this week that she could not support Schumer, said Friday that she is glad Van Hollen was running but did not commit to supporting him in the Dec. 1 election.
Van Hollen has acknowledged he is the underdog in the race against Schumer, who has led Senate Democrats for a decade and helped the party regain control of the chamber in the midterm elections.
Let's call out the last paragraph for the canard that it is. Schumer attempted to stand up Janet Mills as Susan Collins' opponent this year, cut off Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon completely, etc.
He is, and has never been, up to the task of Senate Majority Leader.
Hell, his performance as Senate Minority Leader was pretty pathetic as well.
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