Who Gets To Be Senate Majority Leader If The Senate Has A 50/50 Balance?.....

[global1]

If after Georgia runoffs the Dems take 2 seats and the Senate becomes a 50/50 tie - how is the Senate Majority Leader picked?

[gldstwmn]

1. It will be Chuck Schumer.

[TwilightZone]

2. The party of the POTUS

[roamer65]

3. Look up what they did after the November 2000 election.

I do believe the Senate was 50-50 for awhile after it.

[Amishman]

6. There were some very interesting power sharing agreements with that

Here is an article on it.

https://www.thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/303644-even-steven-how-would-a-50-50-senate-operate

Also a lesson to be learned from how that 50/50 split ended.

Bush got his tax cut, which caused Sen
Jeffords to switch parties, giving us control of the Senate. The lesson is not to push a divided Senate too far, or risk a defection. I can see Tester or especially Manchin doing it if pr assured into too many precarious votes.

[Ace Rothstein]

4. Kamala Harris breaks the tie.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Since Harris, as VP, is the tie breaker, Dems would have the majority so it would be Schumer.

[getagrip_already]

8. as long as we stick together.....

And nobody (*cough*) tries to make a play for power or elicit promises.

[unblock]

7. Harris gets to break the tie. However, at least in theory, it's possible

for republicans to get a majority by wooing a democrat to their side. Typically they would try to entice someone in a red state with a plum committee chair, say manchin (wv)

In practice, he'd just take that back to Schumer to get some goodies within the party instead.

[greenjar_01]

9. VP breaks the Senate tie

[pwb]

10. Any chance the pukes could pick someone other than McConnell to

to be leader, if we lose the runoffs? Some may want to be involved in helping our country recover.