Schumer admits in private call that Democratic chances to regain Senate control were squashed: Report

Published December 1, 2020 6:31pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is reportedly pointing fingers at others for the Democratic Party’s underperformance in the 2020 election.

In a recent call with donors, the New York Democrat admitted his party’s best chances of reclaiming a majority in the upper chamber of Congress were squashed, according to Axios. He blamed failed North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham’s extramarital affair and Maine Sen. Susan Collins’s opposition to filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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