The Maryland Democrat has been critical of Schumer, who has led the caucus for nearly a decade.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced Thursday that he would challenge Chuck Schumer for the top Democratic leadership role in the Senate, arguing the party needs to take a more populist direction.
“In this election, the American people called for change. They called for a change from Donald Trump’s disastrous policies — but even bigger than that, a change from the status quo that isn’t working for working people,” Van Hollen, who represents Maryland, said in a statement obtained by The Washington Sun.
Good enough for Bernie, good enough for me!
Van Hollen really laid it out for the party with this announcement:
“Now people will have to make a decision, one way or the other, and they have to decide whether they want to vote for change or whether they want to vote for the status quo.”
Get fucked, Schumer!
I just got done listening to Bernie Sanders interview with Jon Stewart where and he mentioned his support for Van Hollen.
Let’s fucking go!
I’m writing an email to James Talarico right fucking now.
Hot Damn!
Okay Libs. No excuse now. It’s been a week of “well nobody is running against him” but that’s done. Time to put up or shut up. Who you gonna stand with? The new blood or the ancient blood? The man whose leadership has given us Trump? Or literally anything else?
Cuz I’ll tell you this, the more and more you think about it the more it feels like a Chuck Schumer lead Democratic Party will not only end up in massive Republican victory in 2028, it might be the end of our democracy. I don’t know if democracy in the United States would survive the wave of apathy and surrender that would come from seeing this momentous Blue Wave betrayed by the Democratic corporate Old Guard. I think there’s an extremely valid risk that you would kill momentum for generations of voters.
(Imma write a letter to my senator elect right this second. Do the same.)
He’s not pro Israel so there’s that. But I don’t love
born January 10, 1959
Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
Yeah, but what is team Move The Goalposts gonna bitch about if we start settling for Good Enough instead of sitting on our hands waiting for Perfect to fall into our laps?
If he can beat Schumer and let the new wave of democrats do what they were elected to do without obstruction, he could be 100 for all I care.
I’m totally fine with a 67 year old. That’s the age of a normal elder statesman. This will change over 4-6 years, but right now Van Hollen is totally with it and I love his ideas.
Just a kid
Please let him win!
