Chuck Schumer laid out his plans to become majority leader
Steve Bullock is interested in becoming president, not senator. But Chuck Schumer met with him anyway last month in New York in hopes of luring him into a campaign for the upper chamber.
But the challenge of besting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in their long-running Senate chess match is daunting, and his early efforts have found mixed success.Sign Up And besides Bullock, a few of Schumer’s most exciting prospects also have their eyes on the White House, including former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Texas Democrats Julián Castro and Beto O'Rourke, who isSchumer said he’s not giving a hard sell to prospective candidates, but that he is laying out the advantages of joining his dogged pursuit of the majority: A chance to control the agenda, potentially with unified Democratic control of Washington in 2021.
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