Sen. Chuck Schumer strongly backed Abdul El-Sayed after the progressive candidate’s slim victory in the Michigan primary and vowed that the Democratic “big tent” approach to intraparty feuds will succeed in taking back the Senate in the fall midterms.
The Senate Democratic leader told Punchbowl News he is 100% behind the newly minted nominee, even though the party’s political operation backed rival Rep. Haley Stevens in a contentious primary that El-Sayed narrowly won this week.
“What people don’t understand is that a big tent is a strength, not a weakness,” Schumer said. “It’s how you build a majority.”
Well, a step in the right direction… but Schumer still needs to retire already…
Isn’t he 75? At what age is it considered early retirement in the USA?
Edit: I read the above comment before I had my morning coffee, and saw “early” instead of “already”. Leaving this here because at this point 75 does seem like early retirement for US politicians.
At what age is it considered early retirement in the USA?
Dead.
75 is when you’re done being a junior contributor, another decade and Chuck will be ready to think about running for president
Fuck you, Schumer.
Schumer’s just trying to keep his job.
This is obvious, which is why it mystifies me that performative progressives online aren’t celebrating that they’re taking over the Democratic Party. They’re winning, but they still have to be all “neither party is pure enough for me” in posts.
Democratic Socialists are doing exactly what the Tea Party and then MAGA did to the GOP. Doesn’t anyone think we’ll all be better off without the Neoliberal DNC and with the DS DNC?
Oh, you mean the guy who has been lying about a fictional couple that he thinks about when he casts his votes? Yeah, I trust him 100%.
I don’t know anything about this other than Schumer being a fraudulent asshole. Vote Socialist / Leftist. Fuck Dems. And if Schumer is right about this person / anything, it’s by accident or a lie.
“What people don’t understand is that a big tent is a strength, not a weakness,” Schumer said.
Wow, Charlie. Nobody understood that until you explained it to us. What a fucking political thinker.
A fictional Republican couple.
All my homies hate Schumer.
He needs him to vote for him for senator majority leader. After that he will shit all over him.
No more placeholder politicians Schumer.
I’m worried about Democrats’ new (old) direction of not being the loser party. Who body-snatched Chuck?
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory is earthquake for Democratic Party old guard
KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
AUG 05, 2026
I’m glad that the shift towards more progressive politics is being accepted by the establishment. It just makes sense even from a purely rational view of “my side wins”, and if that’s what it takes to enable actual change then so be it, regardless of what kind of politician chuck is on his own right.
