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.”
To play devil’s advocate, the super-delegate system wasn’t decisive in Hillary’s victory. Jacobin has a good article on this that’s for some reason a pain in the ass to find, but the short of it is that 2020 was actually worse on the ratfucking front. Aside from the usual bullshit with mainstream media and funding, one thing they did was be deliberately irresponsible with primary dates in the middle of the pandemic to depress turnout, which favored Biden at the cost of literally getting their constituents killed.
And 2024 was basically a kingmaker play when there was an actual convention coming up after they convinced Biden to step down. Could have had a democratic selection of the candidate then, but fuck no.
“Primaries are when you get to challenge from the left!”
DNC: