Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is facing a potentially serious challenge to his hold on power as momentum builds behind Chris Van Hollen, with the Maryland senator now reportedly open to a run for majority leader.
A movement to draft Van Hollen to challenge Schumer is gaining steam, according to Politico Playbook, which reported Monday that two people close to the effort said it was underway.
A person familiar with Van Hollen’s thinking told the outlet that the senator has “received an outpouring of calls and is now in active listening mode.”
That, to me, is the bar. If someone wants to lead, wants power, wants to be famous etc, they are unqualified. Because it means they really did not understand the job.
Google says there’s only ever been 1 president who was speaker and 1 who was senate majority leader. Accepting these roles seems like a career death sentence.
Wait, if there’s only one president who was speaker that has to have been Gerald Ford, who was never elected to executive office, he just replaced vice president Agnew then president Nixon after each stepped downNevermind, Ford was house minority leader.Looks like the speaker was James K. Polk, and the majority leader was Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson makes sense as he was brought in for vice president to get the south on board with Kennedy.
Many career politicians do not want to run for nor be president. Senate or House leader is a peak political position
Unless you’re the sort of person who isn’t satisfied with being senate majority leader and swinging “Jumbo” around