Awkward Moment! Democrats Asked If They Back Schumer For Majority Leader As He Stands Beside Them

I'd actually like to ask Senator Durbin, Gall, Guy Engel, and White House, are you supportive of Senator Schumer in this vote later in the season? Yes. Look, I used to be a longtime Cubs fan, and I luckily got over that. When the manager takes you to the World Series, you give him another contract. And this has been a really good election cycle for us. But Chuck and I have had our differences. Thank you. I am in his office a lot more. I think that he wants me to be in his office. And sometimes I'm called to the office more than I want to be called to the office. But at the end of the day, these are historic numbers. It's time for us to unify. We're going to work together as a caucus to put a plan together about how to move forward for what the country wants us to do. And I think, you know, we have the person that's going to lead us there. So let's be clear. We won for a lot of reasons. President Trump created the most toxic agenda you can imagine by sending us to war in Iran, by having chaotic tariffs that raise the price of everything. But what made a difference for this election is that the Democratic Caucus went into these elections 100% unified. We spent a year and a half talking about cost, corruption and chaos. That was all Leader Schumer's decision making and effort to keep our caucus united. We talked from one, what do we call it? One songsheet, the whole time, there was enormous unanimity. You saw this caucus go out and campaign for these candidates in red and purple America. You saw this caucus raise enormous amounts of resources so these candidates could at least try to communicate head to head. And Senator Schumer, on top of all that. Raised another $600 million, which is an extraordinary amount of money because we were so outspent by the Republican Party, because they had Elon Musk dumping in his billions and they had more super PACs than you could ever imagine. So what I can tell you is this caucus is grateful for the hard work of Senator Schumer. No one has put in the time and effort that anyone has put into this cycle than he did. And on top of that. He worked early, right in the beginning of the cycle, to find the best candidates we can find. And what made a difference is when these very strong candidates got out there and raised the resources, created the grassroots advocacy, they allowed us to put more seats on the map. Because we had candidates like Sherrod Brown, because we had candidates like Roy Cooper, who could take these deeply red states and start turning them blue early, because— John Ossoff was out front kicking ass from day one, raising over $100 million, taking Georgia off the map. That event allowed another ten races to become a part of this play that Senator Schumer made sure there were resources early. Senator Schumer and I did a fundraiser a year ago for our Mississippi candidate, for Scott Colome. He made sure there were resources in that state. over a year ago to actually register 100,000 new voters. That takes vision, it takes clarity of thought, it takes strategic leadership. And that is what Senator Schumer has done. And that is why you will see, despite all the grumblings, enormous gratitude for the hard work he has done to get us to this position. We are about to win nine Senate seats. That has never happened in my political history, nine. This wave is bigger. Then the last blue wave, which was in 2006, in 2006, we won, that's me, it's when I won my two to one Republican House district. He was the head of DSCC that cycle, Chuck Schumer, but it's bigger than that wave because that wave was six Senate seats and 30 House seats. You're gonna see nine Senate seats and you're gonna see plus 30 House seats. That wave doesn't get created by, Magic, it gets created by hard work and putting the pieces together over two years. And what Senator Schumer was able to do was galvanize this caucus to all work hard to get this done. And yes, this country voted for change. That's why they voted for so many new candidates up and down the ticket. Most of our candidates are under the age of 45, which is shocking. But it takes strategy and planning to move us to the place where we can put these players on the field and actually win. And that takes experience. Schumer, I was yes. I was yes early. Okay, but Chris Van Hollen and I are friends. We talk frequently, and we're united. United in lowering costs, and united in ending this damn war. We're done? Thank you all. What does that have to do with it? Schumer, Kirsten is giving you plenty to write about. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the One India app now.