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LEFT EATS LEFT: Schumer Defends Against Calls to Step Down on The View, 'I Should Be Leader' [WATCH]

posted by Hannity Staff - 3.18.25

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was forced to defend himself on The View on Tuesday as calls for him to step aside have grown louder since he agreed to support the CR to fund the government, avoiding a shutdown.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted the criticism he’s received from his fellow Democrats, saying, “Some of the progressive members of your caucus, the House caucus, are not with you. Jasmine Crockett questioned your leadership, Hakeem Jeffries dodged a question about your alignment over this and obviously voted the other direction. There seems to be a disconnect between the younger generation and some of the newly elected Democrats, and yours.”

“Do you believe that the party has confidence in you to continue to serve as its leader? And as somebody who was influential in helping Biden’s decision to step aside, do you think it might be time for you, too?” she asked.

“No,” Schumer responded. “We have a lot of really strong talent in the Senate, in the House, in the governors, we have a great bench. But as for the Senate caucus, of which I’m the leader, I should be the leader.”

Schumer told the co-hosts he was good at winning Senate seats.

“I’m a strategist, in terms of recruiting candidates, helping the candidates run campaigns and win. Look, winning in 2026 in the House and Senate, which could stop Trump once and for all, is vitally important,” he said.

The senator compared himself to an orchestra leader.

“I’m sort of the orchestra leader and I have a lot of talent in that orchestra, so what I do is I show them off. We have some great spokespeople, people like Chris Murphy and Brian Schatz,” he said. “I’ll tell you one thing, we are totally united in one thing, many things, but one thing above all, we are united in going after Trump and showing the American people that he is making the middle-class pay for the tax cuts on the rich.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin told Schumer point-blank she thinks he caved.

Schumer also seemingly mocked Americans for wanting to keep more of their hard-earned money.

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