Schumer acknowledges Democrats must change the ‘things we did wrong’

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reflected on last week’s bruising electoral defeats in which Republicans flipped four seats, giving them a 53-seat majority in the Senate, emphasizing Democrats must do a thorough autopsy to understand “the things we did wrong.” 

“We have to understand the things we did wrong and we must change,” Schumer said, speaking on the Senate floor for the first time since the election. “We have to look at what we didn’t do but should have done.”

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