Sen. Chuck Schumer strongly backed Abdul El-Sayed after the progressive candidate’s slim victory in the Michigan primary and vowed that the Democratic “big tent” approach to intraparty feuds will succeed in taking back the Senate in the fall midterms.
The Senate Democratic leader told Punchbowl News he is 100% behind the newly minted nominee, even though the party’s political operation backed rival Rep. Haley Stevens in a contentious primary that El-Sayed narrowly won this week.
“What people don’t understand is that a big tent is a strength, not a weakness,” Schumer said. “It’s how you build a majority.”
Chuck will fold once Trump calls him names again.
Oh, you mean the guy who has been lying about a fictional couple that he thinks about when he casts his votes? Yeah, I trust him 100%.
I don’t know anything about this other than Schumer being a fraudulent asshole. Vote Socialist / Leftist. Fuck Dems. And if Schumer is right about this person / anything, it’s by accident or a lie.
“What people don’t understand is that a big tent is a strength, not a weakness,” Schumer said.
Wow, Charlie. Nobody understood that until you explained it to us. What a fucking political thinker.
A fictional Republican couple.
I am hoping that anyone left of center finally learned their lesson from the last election. Vote with your heart in the primaries but come election time join hands with those closest to you and present a united front. Republicans are idiots but even they understand this. I voted for Sayed and I’m happy he won, but if it was Stevens I’d be getting behind her as well.
Good job. You’re keeping Dems in power, ensuring they never have to change. I hate the current admin being in power and making people I care about at risk. It’s the fault of Dems, not Leftists who want actual change.
You could have just said you haven’t learned yet.
Have you ever considered the reason we are here is because you haven’t learned yet?
I am absolutely one of the reasons we are here. I voted third party in a swing state in 2016.
Vote as far left on every ballot but vote for the candidate that actually has a chance. It’s that simple for me.
I too want the party pulled left. And the time to do that is in the primaries, which is exactly whats happening now.
How’d that primary strategy work out in 2024?
You are voting 3rd party in the primary but somehow fail to realize GOP and DNC are owned by the same interest. The illusion in the cave is that you think the DNC is left. (You call the DNC left of center above).
Voting to center right (DNC) when you want to be left of center will never shift American politics left. Trump is the boogeyman that gets you to abandon what you claim to stand for (progressivism).
MAGA co-opted the GOP by refusing to compromise. This shifted the GOP even further right. When progressives compromise the entire American political spectrum bell curve just shifts further right.
I understand that you think your approach will produce an immediate harm reduction. I am sure it will look that way, but the steady march to the right won’t stop if the left side of the spectrum caves while the right does not
You’re wrong about your history in a number or ways, and superglue has the right idea. You’re seeing the Democrats being pulled to the left right now, this very minute, and you still want to shoot yourself in the foot, and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
If you can’t distinguish between the evils of the GOP and the lesser evils of the Democrats, you’re morally non-functional.
I do actually think their heart is in the right place. Sadly, that place is in a reality they want to exist, but doesn’t. Every time I engage even a little with them I get paragraphs of mental gymnastics. Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
What history? Be specific.
Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in what battle? I am not in your far right vs center right fight.
I obviously can distinguish between the GOP and DNC (my comment said if things changed it would appear to be an improvement).
The reality of arguing that the left needs to compromise and embrace the “lesser evils” of the DNC in the face of the evils of the GOP is that it hands the GOP a cudgel. Don’t propose ideas that are too left or the right will lash out. Meanwhile, the right has been orchestrating a conservative backslide for decades.
I do enjoy a good personal attack when one side can’t formulate anything of substance to say. If it makes you feel better to call me morally bankrupt, you can have it.
The thing is, what passes for the left in America has been compromising its values for decades. That is the constant drum beat. And here we are. Explain, why more of the same will change course.
I’m worried about Democrats’ new (old) direction of not being the loser party. Who body-snatched Chuck?
Schumer’s just trying to keep his job.
This is obvious, which is why it mystifies me that performative progressives online aren’t celebrating that they’re taking over the Democratic Party. They’re winning, but they still have to be all “neither party is pure enough for me” in posts.
Democratic Socialists are doing exactly what the Tea Party and then MAGA did to the GOP. Doesn’t anyone think we’ll all be better off without the Neoliberal DNC and with the DS DNC?
Well, a step in the right direction… but Schumer still needs to retire already…
Isn’t he 75? At what age is it considered early retirement in the USA?
Edit: I read the above comment before I had my morning coffee, and saw “early” instead of “already”. Leaving this here because at this point 75 does seem like early retirement for US politicians.
75 is when you’re done being a junior contributor, another decade and Chuck will be ready to think about running for president
At what age is it considered early retirement in the USA?
Dead.
Not even then I mean look at Mitch McConnel
We can’t!
Obligatory fuck Schumer, but even for the crusty old guard corporate democrats, winning the majority is crucial. Once a progressive candidate clears the hurdle to make a challenge, they have to fall in line. It’s that slim and that uncertain.
At least for now. They’re likely planning to drown him in bribes if he wins and hope that moderates him.
Dems getting control means that a couple of turn coats will get all the money.
Is there anyone who’d be upset if chuck drowned in his own piss?
The Baileys would probably be discouraged.
Would they?
I’d rather he were torn apart by wild dogs, but I’d settle for piss-drowning.
What if he drowned in their piss?
I’d be upset that it wasn’t my piss.
Fuck you, Schumer.
All my homies hate Schumer.
Well that’s an unexpected bit of principle.
No more placeholder politicians Schumer.
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory is earthquake for Democratic Party old guard
KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
AUG 05, 2026
