Enraged Democrats turn on Chuck Schumer tearing their own party apart

Chuck Schumer is running scared from his own party.He can’t even hit the road to promote his new book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” for fear of protests. The Senate minority leader has had to postpone his publicity tour out of what his spokeswoman calls “security concerns.” Progressive Democrats, furious Schumer passed a Republican spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, are getting up close to show him how angry they are.They’re demonstrating outside his home in Brooklyn, and wherever he might hawk his book, protesters were ready to follow. So, to dodge embarrassment or worse, Schumer’s beat a retreat. Such is life at the top of the Democratic Party these days.Because Schumer couldn’t outmaneuver Trump in the budget showdown, his own team considers him not just a loser but a traitor.House Democrats have even begun encouraging Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to launch a primary challenge against him.The 74-year-old senator isn’t up for re-election until 2028, which is too long for Democrats to wait, according to The Nation — the progressive magazine’s Jeet Heer is calling for Schumer to resign immediately, both from leadership and the Senate. No wonder CNN’s latest poll shows Democrats with a record-low favorability rating of just 29% — the party is at war with itself, and Democratic voters themselves increasingly dislike what they see from their elected officials, and leaders like Schumer. Yet the CNN survey shows only 16% of Democrats think their party is too extreme.Schumer knows better: That’s why he’s lying low instead of out selling his antisemitism book.

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