How Schumer and the Democrats are preparing to fight [View all]
As of Jan. 20, Chuck Schumer will be the most important Democrat in the land. But spend a few minutes with the incoming Senate minority leader and it’s clear where the real power lies.
I was interviewing the New York Democrat in his Capitol hideaway office this week when he paused to take a call on his archaic flip phone. It was about an event scheduled for the next day to highlight a new initiative tallying jobs “outsourced” overseas during the Trump presidency.
Schumer had one question: “Is Bernie coming?”
“He told me he’d come,” Schumer continued. “Hold on, I’ll call him right now.” The party leader had his aides track down Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the populist insurgent who nearly beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. “Hey, Bernie, so can you come?” Schumer asked. “We’ll do it at a time that’s good for you, okay? . . . Try to clear it. It’s a good event. . . . It’s right up your alley and you can help us by coming. . . . It complements what you’re doing. . . . We need you.”
Schumer hung up. “Okay, he’ll come.”
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