El-Sayed said he wants Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., to challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during the December leadership elections. Van Hollen, a 67-year-old progressive, made headlines in 2025 when he traveled to El Salvador to visit Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported by the Department of Homeland Security without standard due process.
“He’s willing to take risks when it matters — flying down to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a real risk,” El-Sayed said of Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador. “I want folks to sort of think about what it means to earn that mandate that we just got. To me, it means taking righteous risks and righteous fights.”
Guy is cool and all but 67 is too old. Get a 40-50ish in there.
One big problem is that no other senator wants the job.
Senators used to have a lot more power than they do now. They have ceded much of their individual power to leadership over the last 3 decades and I’m afraid this has made them too comfortable in their jobs.
The former Detroit public health official even floated the idea of naming major healthcare legislation after Trump.
“Put his name on it,” El-Sayed said. “He’ll probably pass it. I’m not above doing that. I don’t care what it’s called.”
I have been saying this. Pass Trumpcare and Trump bucks. He will love to sign shit with his name on it. He will be really happy to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare.
For the lazy, and for some weird bug where the link only works every other time I click it, other wise it just goes to ALL their comment history:
This would actually probably work. Trump is a raging narcissist, and the best way to manipulate narcissists is to stroke their ego.
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That’s so cool. Thanks!
Whoever won the longest maga held seat should be the new leader or can pick, as long as it’s a progressive.
Damn Muslim advocating for disenfranchised laborers across every aisle. I was going to crush those into paste, you son of a bitch!
