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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online 27 min. ago

Breaking Video: Chris Van Hollen Speaks After Declaring He'll Challenge Schumer To Become Senate Leader | CNN

This really is a response to the call of the voters who clearly rejected Donald Trump and his awful policies, but they haven't fully hired the Democrats...we need to earn their trust... we need to use all our powers right now to end this illegal war against Iran. And that means not one penny more... That's not the position of the current majority leader.

https://youtu.be/BJUIlvGFN5Q?t=77

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Van Hollen | CNN (cont)

How many votes do you have now? I have a path to get there. No doubt about it. I saw that, you know, Senator Schumer's team put out a list just the other day of people they said who are voting for Senator Schumer. I can tell you that a number of those people on that list have actually committed to voting for me and the others are very open to the idea of change.

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Van Hollen | CNN (cont)

I don't think it's the role of the Senate majority leader to get involved in open contested Democratic primaries. I have two colleagues right now in the Senate... who would not be there if the current majority leader had his way. He joined with APAC and Crypto to try to defeat them.... I think we need more democracy within the Senate Democratic Caucus... We need more participation from all the members, especially now this incredible new class that's coming in.

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“I think we need more democracy within the Senate Democratic Caucus.”

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Van Hollen | CNN (cont)

There are also reports that are credible that the Schumer team is trying to change the date of the election to try to move it up from December 1st. [Q: Would you support that?] No, the whole idea is to have a discussion and debate where everyone can talk about their future responding to the call of the American people. I see it as a sign of weakness that they want to they want to bring the date forward rather than have this debate.

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