Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, feeling 'exuberant' following Sen. Raphael Warnock's win in Georgia's runoff, on Wednesday laid out why he thinks Democrats won and what to expect from their incoming 51-seat edge.
Chuck Schumer makes a gesture to represent the number 'fifty-one', during a news conference held to discuss the expansion of Democrats' majority in the Senate, on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Dec. 7, 2022., on Wednesday laid out why he thinks Democrats won and what to expect from their incoming 51-seat edge.
Chuck Schumer makes a gesture to represent the number 'fifty-one', during a news conference held to discuss the expansion of Democrats' majority in the Senate, on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Dec. 7, 2022.
The House Jan. 6 committee's public hearings on the Capitol attack also "played an important effect," he contended, in exposing extremism in the GOP.Now that Democrats have total control of the Senate and are no longer governed by a 50-50 power-sharing agreement with Republicans, Schumer said they are breathing a "sigh of relief."
"It gives us just a lift. The fact that we got the 51 votes gives us just a great feeling, enthusiasm, unity, encouragement," he said. "There are a good number of Republicans in the Senate and the House who are not MAGA Republicans who know that if the Republican Party follows the hard right and the extreme members in their caucuses, they'll continue to lose ground. It is my intention to reach out to them and see how can we work in a bipartisan way," he said.
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