Chuck Schumer UNDER WATER as Dems LOOK for new LEADERSHIP

The past year has been tumultuous for Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He had to navigate the record-long government shutdown and has faced other Democrats saying the party needs fresh leadership in the Senate. Now new polling shows that his popularity has plummeted even among those who would normally support him. Take a look at this clip from CNN with Harry Enten. In early 2020, look at this, Chuck Schumer was 40 points above water, very much on the positive side of the ledger with Democrats. Look at this. Look at this change. This is nuts. Johnny B. off on the side going, my good, this gracious. Now he's a point underwater with Democrats. Chuck Schumer isn't unpopular overall. He is that. He's not just that. He's actually not popular with Democrats. Enten went on to suggest that Schumer's unpopularity is just part of the larger movement of Democratic voters being upset with the establishment and shifting leftward. This is part of a larger picture in which Democrats are turning against their leadership. They are specifically turning against Chuck Schumer. He is actually underwater nationally with Democrats. And even in his own home state of New York, the Empire State, he can't even reach 50 percent favorable rating with Democrats. I mean, Chuck Schumer has been there a long time and people are not seeing the type of changes that they're looking for in government. And so there's a slew of issues and things that they think he failed to do or has done that haven't been adequate, specifically like allowing to get to the point of government shutdown two different times in the last year where it was complete or three. But one was a partial shutdown, but several times because he wasn't adamant enough about policy that should have been during his time in Congress. These all should have been laws. Health care should have been locked in. Everything should be locked in to the point where there wasn't any extension of subsidies that then gets goes away. Now you're shutting down government over it. It takes 60 votes. He should have came up with a plan with the Republicans. There's no way. And I put the blame on Republicans, but I also say the Republicans do want to address health care. I mean, the president acts like he does and Republicans say they do. They go back to constituents and say they do. So they were looking for a different strategy. And so Schumer's job was to lay that strategy out alongside his colleagues and figure out how to get it done, not shut down the government. So that's one instance. But the biggest issue is that he's been completely shunning and not listening to the progressive wing of the party. That's why we have Graham Platner right now, because he wanted to support it. And I don't like Graham Platner, but I'm just saying these are like direct rebuts to Schumer's policy and the way that he behaves and addresses specifically criticisms around our support for Israel. Some of the candidates right now have had differing positions than him, and he has been adamant on wavering in his support, which is fine. But he also needs to talk to the progressive wing of the party that doesn't feel comfortable with the length and the magnitude of the response to those terrorist attacks. He has not navigated this situation well at all. Admittedly, it's a difficult decision, difficult situation to be in, which is that Democrats rank and file are furious with their leadership, cannot stand Chuck Schumer, cannot stand Hakeem Jeffries, think Democratic leadership has failed. Think Democratic leadership, I mean, Democratic leadership has failed, right? Lost the presidential election, lost in 2016. Joe Biden barely won. That was kind of coasting off the, you know, the positive Obama vibes and a little bit of, and COVID. And Trump fatigue. Trump, COVID being mishandled and a disaster fell upon us. And the country decided, like, if I think if COVID had not happened, I think Trump would have been reelected in 2020. But neither here nor there. Democrats failing to recruit, run candidates that excite their actual voters. Democratic voters are furious about Trump now, just like blindly furious. The Democratic party has not, like, has in some sense gone pretty hard after Trump in like a legal sense, in like trying to get him out of office via impeachment and keep him off the ballot and, you know, investigate him for this and that. None of those things have worked at all. And I think Democrats are frustrated with the choice to fight Trump on like legal technicalities rather than with a substantive vision for what the party stands for and what they're going to do. Now, these Democratic socialist type people, these far left people are offering a vision and they're blaming the party leadership. They're saying, screw the party leadership, overthrow Chuck Schumer. We're going to do it differently. We have a plan. We have an agenda. The other side thinks it's crazy. And maybe some of you do too, but we have a plan. And I think Chuck Schumer is going to really struggle to respond to that in a no, no, trust the plan. Stick with us. Stick with my vision. My vision, which is just kind of sort of progressivism, like it's sort of, it's like Biden. He's toeing the line. Yeah, it's not pleasing to anyone. And then you're right about the Israel thing. That's now becoming a litmus test for people in Democratic circles, not on Republican circles. Well, yes, there's people who widely follow Tucker Carlson, for example, who is particularly criticized the America First policies and how they're not being fulfilled by the president. And so there's different reasons. But Tucker Carlson is not successfully electing anyone who shares the Tucker Carlson vision, for better or for worse, to Congress. I mean, Tucker is aware of that. I just read an interview he did with the Columbia Journalism Review this morning where he's like, I have no political power. I tried to convince Trump not to do the war with Iran and I failed. Like, I'm not getting anyone elected. I'm just saying what I think. And I have a lot of audience and I have a huge audience. I don't know who it is listening to me, but no, I am not electing people to Congress. Hassan Piker is electing people to Congress. The far left socialist wing is electing people to Congress who share the vision of the far left now. On Israel and other things. When we talk about the far left and you say that they differ from Chuck Schumer, what people have been advocating for in their campaigns, and obviously we have to see how they follow up if they get into office, was some of the policies that we're seeing mirrored in what Mamdani is accomplishing, which is specifically around housing, tenant protections, around trying to create a more fair ecosystem and economic comfortability for folks. And so this is what people are actually running on. And so Chuck Schumer, and also trying to provide medical coverage for a lot of people, childcare, they want to push it a little bit further. The same things that Bernie Sanders was saying when Obama was fighting for Obamacare. He wanted to open it up even wider than Obama, who wanted to do it in a more bipartisan fashion. The Republicans acted like it was the craziest thing. Obama was trying to push something that was bipartisan. Bernie Sanders wanted to take it even further. These people have always existed in the party, and now they're just having a wider voice. And shunning them obviously wasn't the answer. When Bernie Sanders was shunned multiple times in the past, people were like, why did we go with Hillary Clinton? A lot of people liked Bernie Sanders, even within the Democratic party, and they felt that the establishment completely dismissed and silenced their voices. Bernie Sanders is not radical enough for the generation that is being elected. Yeah, but you're adding young people into the mix. He doesn't think Israel should be erased from existence. Bernie Sanders has also had a lot of experience that a lot of young people don't. But part of what Democrats are missing, and Chuck Schumer is not getting, is that a lot of young people don't like him. And so not only taking it, you can put the Israel thing on a couple of radical folks who you don't really like. Some people actually have real concerns about Israel that I think are valid. But there's a whole slew of young people that feel uncomfortable with leadership not getting anything done for them. They're like, why should I blindly be Democratic? What young people feel uncomfortable with Hamas? You're making things up. I mean, the people getting elected to Congress. I'm talking about the voters that want Chuck Schumer replaced. They're overlooking some things I could never overlook. You overlook a variety of things when it comes to our president. Every single day we sit here, and you overlook things. I know, but because policies are getting accomplished, you overlook. And so did half of the country that put him in office. There's people that actively voted and in polling have said, we don't like some of the antics and the behavior, but we like the policies. So people do that every single day. They do. That's in a head-to-head matchup with Democrats and what the other side is envisioning. But we're talking about primary races where we're just, I mean, this Colorado woman, the one who lost, I didn't know anything about her. I checked her record this morning. She's very progressive, extremely progressive, including on Israel and other issues. And she lost out to a socialist. Now this is primary voters. You didn't have to pick someone who is a terrorist sympathizer. You didn't have to. Your choices were not between someone who wants to send every dollar we have to Israel and a socialist. And so you chose a socialist. It was a very, very progressive person, just not that radical, but they're choosing, this is the level of frustration I guess they have with Schumer. They're choosing true radical. And on the other side of that coin is that people who support MAGA and who are voting inside of this Republican primary race are supporting ideas that align with President Trump as opposed to ideas that maybe will benefit the party as a whole. And so some people that are being put in office, so we're going to see how both of these sides play out that are happening simultaneously. I hate the two part system. I hate it. I know, but we're going to see what happens in November, right? I hate that these are the only choices we have. I hate it. Please destroy this awful system. You want to be more like the UK. I know you've made that clear. I just don't want a system where the only choice is this or that and both suck as we find time and time again. Yeah, but here we are. So you cannot tell folks that you feel like you just need to step out if it's not for you. I'm stepping out. I don't, not on this July 4th holiday weekend. Next up, President Trump is touting the success of the great American state fair, but it might not be as great as he's making it seem. Stay with us.