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The Senate minority leader's more aggressive posture in this shutdown fight isn’t inoculating him in the pending midterms.
CNN host Dana Bash repeatedly pressed Sen. Chuck Schumer on why he was holding out on endorsing NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday, as he insisted he was still talking to the Democratic socialist.
There was a vocal contingent of Mamdani supporters at a black-tie opening for the Met Opera's “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay.”
The chilly relationship is a rather new development. Schumer and Thune have served together in the Senate for more than 20 years, including overlapping on the powerful Finance Committee. Even into the first Trump administration, Thune spoke about his regular run-ins with Schumer in the Senate gym.
Will the Senate minority leader, the avatar of old New York politics, endorse the young, up-and-coming democratic socialist?
Congressional Democrats unveil "No Political Enemies Act," following concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration are "trying to snuff out" critics.
Conservative figures like Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan, however, were more muted in their response to Jimmy Kimmel's return.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that President Trump posting online that he wants to see Attorney General Pam Bondi "fight back" against people who impeached and prosecuted him is "a real threat to democracy.