{"id":115086,"date":"2021-02-01T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115086"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:42:08","slug":"chuck-schumer-quietly-shutting-down-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-primary-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chuck-schumer-quietly-shutting-down-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-primary-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Schumer Quietly Shutting Down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Primary Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchuck-schumer-quietly-shutting-down-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-primary-challenge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115086&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been quietly shoring up his support among progressives, according to a new report from Politico, ahead of a possible primary challenge from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who is likely to be redistricted out of her seat in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>New York state has lost a significant enough portion of its population to force its legislature to redraw its congressional districts, leaving one of the state&#8217;s Representatives out of a job. Ocasio-Cortez, who has not ingratiated herself to New York&#8217;s Democrats, preferring to build a more national profile than assist the state party in fundraising, is the most likely Representative to be booted from office &#8212; and she, reportedly, has Schumer&#8217;s Senate seat in her sights.<\/p>\n<p>But while she may be waiting to make her candidacy for Senate official until she&#8217;s gotten a better sense of how well she would do in a statewide race, as opposed to a contest limited to a New York City borough, Chuck Schumer is building a strong foundation designed to edge out a progressive primary challenger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New York, the veteran senator\u2019s home state, is the epicenter of the progressive movement\u2019s efforts to oust incumbent Democrats in Congress,&#8221; Politico reports. &#8220;And Schumer, who is up for reelection in 2022, has been taking steps both publicly and privately to steel himself from a left-wing primary challenge \u2014 especially from his biggest threat, Ocasio-Cortez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those efforts involve reaching out directly to organizations that see Ocasio-Cortez as their lone champion in Congress. Most notably, Schumer tried to forge a relationship with the far-left environmental group, Sunrise Movement &#8212; the first group Ocasio-Cortez met with n Washington, D.C., joining them for a sit-in in front of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) office before she&#8217;d even moved into her Congressional quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer has also been quietly moving further left where appropriate &#8212; and where the effort is likely to bear fruit among Ocasi0-Cortez&#8217;s supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the two years since [reaching out to Sunrise], Schumer has thrown his weight behind a plan to cancel student loan debt by executive order. He&#8217;s voted against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. He\u2019s said &#8216;nothing is off the table&#8217; when it comes to eliminating the filibuster. And that\u2019s only a fraction of the progressive moves he\u2019s made in recent years. It still hasn\u2019t inoculated him from the possibility of a primary,&#8221; Politico says.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all designed to preserve his seat in Congress, the outlet suggests, though progressive say they&#8217;ll be watching Schumer in Congress now that he&#8217;s in charge of the Senate. Many of Schumer&#8217;s previous, more progressive, positions were convenient, they noted because it was unlikely then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would have brought them to the floor. Now the situation is different, though Schumer still does not appear to have the votes to pass things like filibuster reform.<\/p>\n<p>If he fails, Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s allies say she&#8217;s open to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey think she would win,\u201d they told Politico.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been quietly shoring up his support among progressives, according to a new report from Politico, ahead of a possible primary challenge from Rep. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892396,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4637,4632,4010,4634,4411,4635],"class_list":["post-115086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alexandria","tag-chuck","tag-down","tag-quietly","tag-schumer","tag-shutting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}