Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed his caucus is united and that he will be elected majority leader, even as opposition mounted within his own ranks. Sens.<\/p>\n
Bernie Sanders and Elissa Slotkin said they would not back him, joining five senators-elect who have also come out against his leadership bid.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> Breitbart News Network \u2014 Schumer Claims Unity as Sanders, Slotkin, 5 Senators-Elect Oppose Him<\/a>. Also reported by thehill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n Chuck Schumer, Senate leadership, Bernie Sanders, Elissa Slotkin, Democratic caucus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed his caucus is united and that he will be elected majority leader, even as opposition mounted within his own\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[466,305,607,606,605],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","category-politics","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-democratic-caucus","tag-elissa-slotkin","tag-senate-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}