Six months ago, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was facing calls to resign as leader after a number of his fellow Democrats voted to join Republicans to end a government shutdown.
But now the Democrat from New York is feeling buoyed by his party’s unity in the latest government funding fight, as well as by President Donald Trump’s worsening political standing, and he’s brimming with confidence about Democrats’ odds of retaking the Senate, seeing as many as eight seats in play in November.
“I feel like we’re going to take back the Senate,” Schumer told NOTUS in an exclusive interview in his Senate office on Tuesday. “If you had to ask me last year, I would have said no.”