Shane Goldmacher
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And to Trump, that's not good enough.
The thing to add to that is like his predecessors in this space of Republicans who have made a lot of hay in criticizing Trump from Congress.
Those folks tend not to have long careers in Congress.
Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Don Bacon from Nebraska is retiring this year.
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
They can get a lot of attention.
They do a lot of cable TV and then they get voted out.
It's also a distraction from other races that are competitive general election contests, right?
He's not talking about defeating John Ossoff, the Georgia senator who's up for re-election.
He's in these races that are sort of mostly safe Republican seats, trying to exert control of the party as opposed to concerning himself with which party will control the House and Senate in the fall.
Wait, can I say we'll be right back?
I've never gotten to say that before.
Sure, Reid, you can say it.
And that has been the Schumer MO for almost 20 years.
And what we are hearing from voters, from candidates, from sitting senators, is that they don't want this anymore.
And some of them are coming out so far and saying they don't want Schumer to be the leader of the party in the Senate anymore.
He is in his 70s, and he certainly does not present as somebody who is a man of the moment, right?
He famously carries a flip phone.
He has his glasses down at the end of his nose.