Evening Edition: Senator Schumer Fighting To Keep Leadership Role
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His own party is upset with him supporting the Republican move to not shut down the government. They thought they had negotiating power. And I don't think that very many people, including Chuck Schumer, expected House Republicans to be so unified in passing that government funding bill. I think they expected it to fall apart and then they would have leverage. This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. ♪♪

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New York's Chuck Schumer has been in the U.S. Senate since 1999, following eight terms in the House of Representatives from a district in New York City. He grew his reputation as a loud and forceful voice for the Democratic caucus, and following the retirement of Nevada's Harry Reid,

Schumer assumed the party's leadership in 2017. But could the 74-year-old senator be losing his command of his party? Democrats are out of power from the White House to both chambers of Congress. And while they're struggling to put up a fight against both the person and the agenda of President Trump...

Schumer actually sided with Republicans to avoid a shutdown of the U.S. government and his own party is lining up against him. Every day gets worse and worse for Chuck Schumer. And the more he gets out there and keeps talking about it, doing this damage control, it

It's only getting worse for him. Fox News' Aisha Hosni is our senior correspondent on the Hill. She talks to us from Washington. He did this thing that we expect leaders to do in both sides of the aisle. You know, Mitch McConnell would have done the same thing. We saw Kevin McCarthy do the same thing in the House. This is what...

you know, leaders do. They try to keep the government open and functioning, even if it means that members of their own party will, you know, eat them alive. And they're prepared for that. And Schumer said as much in some of these interviews that he's doing that I expect it to get a lot of flack for this.

I think that the moment Democrats are sort of saying that this moment was different, that they feel like, you know, the party really needs a uniting message, that they really need to fight back harder against President Trump. They don't have any levers of power. You know, Republicans are controlling everything.

Every branch. And so they they kind of feel like they don't have a whole lot. And this was their one tool that they could have used, albeit it wasn't the best. Nobody wants to shut the government down, but they thought they had negotiating power. And I don't think that.

very many people including chuck schumer expected house republicans to be so unified in passing that government funding bill i think they expected it to fall apart and then they would have leverage to pass what they wanted which was a clean cr for 30 days so once

Republicans came together and passed it, including some House Republicans who had never in their entire career voted for a CR, voted for this one. I think I don't think that Schumer was prepared for that and Schumer or Jeffries. So he was put in a very tough position and it was damned if you do, damned if you don't. And he did what every leader, you know, in the history of Congress would have done and

It's just it's just a sign of the times that people the party is changing. Yeah. Voters are changing. So maybe you can't do the status quo anymore. You bring up a great point in that.

The Democrats were probably not ready to see such a unified Republican Party in Congress, either the House or the Senate. The Republicans are infamous for for infighting, for having their different factions that, you know, whether it's the more conservative and the more fiscal hawk end of the party, and they

They squibble and squabble a lot. They're normally not in lockstep. It's normally the Democrats that are in lockstep. And we've seen a complete role reversal. Democrats have to help Republicans pass the CRs.

Almost always they're they're looking for Democratic votes to help them pass it. Yeah. So what I think also is interesting is who exactly has been criticizing Chuck Schumer for this decision. He's gotten a lot of criticism from the far left of the Democratic Party, the so-called squad and whatnot. But even Nancy Pelosi, who knew when to back out of leadership recently, right, in the past couple of years.

She said she even gave a quote and I forget to whom she was she was giving it to. But she said, I wouldn't I don't give away anything for nothing. I'm probably botching the quote, but she it was a pretty harsh criticism from her saying, hey, you don't know what you're doing anymore. That that's big. Yeah, it was a dig. Exactly. It wasn't her long time old friend. I mean, someone that she's worked very closely with through thick and thin. So it was it was a surprising dig there.

You know, Nancy Pelosi, of course, is mentor to Hakeem Jeffries and they have a very close relationship as well. So it wasn't a big surprise when she came out and said that she supported Hakeem

Chuck Schumer, because obviously the day before we'd heard Hakeem Jeffries say the same thing. So we knew that they were aligned on that. But that little dig was sort of a nod to Democrats. I wouldn't say just on the far left, but I would say even Democrats who won in Trump districts, right? Vulnerable Democrats who kind of feel like,

wow, like we went out there and hung ourselves out there, you know, and, and took a really tough vote to basically not fund the government. And then you guys over in the Senate kind of screwed us. So that's kind of what the feeling is that, um, that feeling that they, um, uh,

Were betrayed. So so it is tensions are high and there's been a lot of private conversations behind the scenes and behind closed doors where people are talking about having AOC primary Schumer in New York. I don't know if that's actually going to happen or how realistic that is.

But certainly conversations around, you know, his leadership position, you know, look what happened to Mitch McConnell. He's still there in the Senate. He's still a senator. No one's ousted him, but he's no longer in a position of power. And so that's kind of where we're at. We're in this moment of.

During this break week where they're all home and they're hearing from their constituents, are these voices going to grow? Are we going to hear more public calls? And we heard the first, I would say, the first suggestion that he leave from Glenn Ivey last night. Yeah.

holding a town hall in Maryland. And he said, he was the first one to publicly say it, that I think it might be time that Chuck Schumer step aside. And he got a huge round of applause. That's not

Great. That's not good. That's not very. Yeah, that's very telling. Because we're expecting more town halls from people like AOC, Bernie Sanders and others later this week. And so it will be interesting if people in those town halls also bring it up and then pile on. And if it keeps piling on, then then.

Capitol Hill is going to be a little nutty next week. We're talking with Fox News correspondent Aisha Hosni. You normally see her reporting from Capitol Hill. And we're discussing the leadership crisis emerging among Senate Democrats following leader Chuck Schumer voting in favor of the Republican bill to prevent a federal government shutdown. On the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition, please like, subscribe and share. We'll have more straight ahead.

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Yeah, you talk about nutty. You recently, I guess it was in the past week, I remember your post on X that from inside that closed door meeting, you could hear people shouting at each other. You could hear United States senators and the Senate is supposed to be like the calmer house. Right. So but these senators were yelling at one another and you could hear it through the wall. That seems like a very new experience. I would have to imagine.

Well, to be fair, it's happened before with Republicans as well. And I personally have been standing in that similar room kind of sort of like waiting for them to come out. You know, and it was probably something to do with government funding, too. But somebody, a Republican, was also shouting at his colleagues. So things do get tense. Look at.

It's it's a very close group of people. They have differing opinions about, you know, something like government funding. And there were plenty of people who were ready to do what the House did. I mean, I think what it was was when you saw what House Democrats did and they were unified and they stood up and said, no, we're not going to we're going to not going to stand for this.

It was really tough for Senate Democrats to not follow their lead and do the same thing. But then you had some, you know, like Kirsten Gillibrand, who was the person screaming, who was trying to tell her colleagues, this is like...

This is not a normal shutdown. Like, this is not, you know, if we do this, this is going to look so poorly on us. And also, the other part of it was strategically, Democrats didn't really have a way out of a shutdown. Let's say they did it. Let's say they stopped

government funding it didn't and the government shut down and we were currently you and I sitting in a shutdown right now what was their solution like how are they going to negotiate their way out of this how are they going to get President Trump to back down on you know cutting and doge cutting and things like that so I think Chuck Schumer saw that and saw that it was just not a good

you know, path to take. And he did what, again, I think Mitch McConnell would have done, any leader would have done. So who among the ranks of the Senate Democrats could be their next leader in the Senate? That's, you know, what names are being thrown about, if any, at this point?

So the obvious choice, you know, by just seniority is Dick Durbin. He's the whip. And so if he would want it, I would think that they would have he would have a pretty easy shot at getting it. But then you're you're talking about, again, we're in this moment where people want new leadership. They want to look towards a younger generation. They want to walk away from the old guard. And that wouldn't be Dick Durbin. I.

It wouldn't be Dick Durbin. So you're looking at people like Chris Murphy, who has been a very outspoken voice attacking President Trump, going after him. He does a lot of media work.

you know, Sunday shows and whatnot. And so he's a big voice. And so certainly he could be a potential candidate. Brian Schatz is another one of those. And these are actually people that Chuck Schumer has talked about when he talks about how he's the orchestra leader. You know, he's the conductor of an orchestra and he has really great voices. He he often talks about people like Chris Murphy that, you know, he sends him out to do TV interviews and things like that. So

There are people that could potentially, Cory Booker as well, that could potentially, you know, sort of be the younger generation that tries to lead this party into the future.

But it's a greater question. It's not just it's it's not just the Senate's emblematic of the entire party. They have to figure out, like, who is going to help them win back seats in in two years. You know, Chuck Schumer went on on The View yesterday and said that he was like the best at.

winning back seats when they just lost four seats in November. Like you just lost the Senate. So maybe you're not so good as much as you think. So who would be that person who could help them win back seats and who could be that person who could work with a future perhaps Speaker Jeffries? Because certainly I don't know. I mean, Speaker, I don't know how Speaker Jeffries

really feels right now. He looked very, very upset when he came back from that retreat, when this news broke. And he dodged that question over and over. I was in the room, we kept trying to ask him, you know, do you still have confidence in Chuck Schumer? You still work

with him and he kept saying, next question, next question, next question. That's not really the way to tell everyone that you have confidence in someone. Aisha Hosni, our Fox News correspondent in Washington, normally at Capitol Hill. Thank you so much for being with us on the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. Thanks for having me.

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