Schumer faces brewing war and progressives ramp up primary threats
| Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has a brewing civil war on his hands as Democratic activists turn up the volume on talk about challenging Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in future Democratic primaries.
More centrist members of Schumer’s caucus want to move past the messy internal battles over President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and filibuster reform, two high-priority issues where Manchin and Sinema stood part from the rest of the caucus. But liberal lawmakers and many Democratic activists are still fuming mad over the failures to pass a sweeping climate and social spending bill or voting rights legislation — and the roles Manchin and Sinema played. |
