.SenSchumer delivers series of wins for Democrats, but will it be enough to save his majority?
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has enjoyed a string of recent legislative victories just a few months before the midterm elections. But it remains to be seen whether those victories will help Democrats retain control of the Senate in an election cycle analysts predict will favor Republicans.
But then, Senate Democrats unilaterally passed the Inflation Reduction Act over the weekend, a reconciliation bill not bound by the upper chamber’s filibuster. The bill’s passage in the Senate marked a huge political victory for Democrats and their Senate leader. Democrats intend to campaign on these accomplishments during the midterm election season and hope the string of wins will boost President Joe Biden's lackluster poll numbers. Schumer dubbed the legislation a"game changer."
Kondik called it “an unusual time” for Democrats to have “unified power in Washington but for their majorities in both chambers to be very small.” He noted that the converse happened in that the government elected in the 2000 election was “pretty similar in that it was 50-50 Senate and the Republican House majority was very small.”
“He must not feel like he's creating extra vulnerability for Mark Kelly or Raphael Warnock on certain things,” Kondik said of two Democratic Senators facing tough elections in Arizona and Georgia.
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