Van Hollen announced Thursday that he would run for Senate leader, setting up a direct challenge to Schumer for the position. Schumer said he "welcomed" discussion on who would take the role.<\/p>\n
The contest puts two sitting senators on a collision course over who will lead the chamber.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> Newsweek \u2014 Chris Van Hollen\u2019s Chances of Beating Chuck Schumer to Become Senate Leader<\/a>. Also reported by CBS News<\/a>, thehill.com<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>, Fox News<\/a>, TIME<\/a>, The New York Times<\/a>, MS NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n Senate leadership, Chris Van Hollen, Chuck Schumer, Democratic Party, Congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Van Hollen announced Thursday that he would run for Senate leader, setting up a direct challenge to Schumer for the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[995,305,149,352,605],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-politics","tag-chris-van-hollen","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-congress","tag-democratic-party","tag-senate-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}