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Sanders, Slotkin won’t back Schumer as Senate Democratic leader (thehill.com)

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[–] ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip 3 points 35 minutes ago (2 children)

So with these two and El Sayed, I think that means we need 3 more dems to stop Schumer from being marked as leader. Pretty sure that reduces the majority below 50 and results in either a revote or a new option

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 minute ago

From the article:

Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) said again earlier this week he would back Van Hollen over Schumer. Sen.-elect Annie Andrews (D-S.C.) said Friday that she wants “generational change” in Senate leadership, after pledging during the campaign not to support Schumer. Sens.-elect Adam Hamilton (D-Kan.) and Troy Jackson (D-Maine) have said the same.

[–] dou9m@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 minutes ago

Pretty sure the point is to force them to keep re-rolling votes to delay everything as much as possible similar to what’s going on with Israel’s PM election. I could be wrong tho, I’m no expert on the legal background of this bs