Sen. Schumer could be the second-biggest winner in the election -- or relegated to perennial

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political bridesmaid

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) bolted from the big election-night party four years ago minutes after polls closed, declaring victory in his own race to reporters in Manhattan and then rushing for a flight back to Washington in pursuit of his dream job.

By the time he rolled into the Capitol Hill townhouse where Democratic leaders watched election results, Schumer’s dream had turned into a slow-motion nightmare. In race after race, Democrats came up short, and Schumer would be relegated to the role of Senate minority leader. Even worse, the presidential race pitting fellow New Yorkers ended with four years of insults from President Trump toward “Cryin’ Chuck,” as his ally Hillary Clinton also came up short.

Now, on the eve of another presidential election, Schumer is poised to be the second-biggest winner of election night. Or, if it’s another nightmare, Schumer might be the most frustrated politician in the United States, a perennial political bridesmaid who never gets to walk down the aisle as majority leader.

A bit superstitious and focused on winning first, Schumer has avoided big speeches about how he would run the Senate, unlike Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who spent all of 2014 describing how he would govern in the run-up to the midterms that made him majority leader for the next six years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-democrats-schumer-liberals/2020/10/31/c6661332-1b21-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html

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1. Hopefully, the Dems win the Senate, but a concern must be how

ruthless Senate leadership will be next year. I have no concern about Pelosi getting bills through the house but Senate is different. Feinstein hugging Graham must set alarm bells off, that they will be hoodwinked again by the regular order bull.