Russell Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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And so for people who are really upset at the system, who've given up on the establishment of both parties, that is the voter for him.
Well, depending on who they are, yes, but it's clear that at this point in his career, Chuck Schumer is kind of like what Mitch McConnell was a few years ago, right, for Republicans, where people running, they wanted Trump's endorsement, but they didn't want necessarily or didn't need Mitch McConnell's endorsement.
And so the big endorsement that most Democrats want, even now in some purple states, is from Bernie Sanders more than Chuck Schumer.
Well, this is a trend that we've been seeing for really 20 years now, first in the House, where you've seen moderates in both parties kind of vanquished.
The Republican moderate caucus is down to, you know, a couple of members who are really not as moderate as the moderates used to be in the Republican Party.
And in the Democratic caucus, the Blue Dogs, which used to be a huge force, are now much smaller in number.
They're the more conservative Democrats.
And now the development that we're seeing is this move on to the Senate.
And we've seen certainly Republicans move to the right or move toward Trump.
Like the Senate used to be sort of the and has been a little bit the bastion of the establishment Republicans.
Republican Party, and you still have what some people would call moderates and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, and depending on the issue, a few others.
And now we're seeing this with Democrats.
You don't have Joe Manchin from West Virginia anymore.
The question is,
well, what's going to change and how is this going to impact Congress is you're already seeing it.
You're seeing fewer bipartisan bills and you're seeing both parties basically try to win total power even if very narrowly where these narrow margins in the House and the Senate.
And then just pass partisan legislation on party lines through, you know, what the Republicans have used and what Democrats use under Joe Biden, which is budget reconciliation.
This gets around the filibuster.
It means they need only 51 votes instead of 60 in the Senate.
And so the trend I think that we're going to see is that.
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