After spending the past two years trying to protect 10 incumbent Democrats in pro-Trump states, the Senate minority leader is ready to put Republicans on the defensive, knowing the GOP will have a tougher electoral map to defend in 2020.Republicans will have a bigger Senate majority next year - 53 seats compared to 51 seats now - but will also have more seats that Democrats are looking to pick off in the next election cycle.
Schumer took to the Senate floor to call him a radical climate-change denier.
Brian Fallon, a former Schumer aide, said Democrats can play offense on other issues that didn't get much notice in competitive Senate races this year: affirmative action, voting rights and the census.
After Democrats captured the House and picked up seven governorships last month, Schumer cast doubt on the possibility of striking a deal with Trump on immigration or anything of significance.
Senate Democrats say Schumer feels he has a lot more leverage with Trump now that Democrats control the House, which is one of the reasons he has rejected the possibility of reviving the deal he offered the president in January: full funding for the border wall in exchange for reauthorizing immigrant protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which Trump rescinded last year.
One Schumer confidant said he offered Trump border wall funding in exchange for reimplementing DACA protections because "The fear was that we would get overrun because they had everything" - the Senate, House and White House.
Schumer isn't reviving the border wall for DACA trade because Democrats "Now know we have a backstop in the House," the source said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/419969-schumer-gets-ready-to-go-on-the-offensive
Schumer took to the Senate floor to call him a radical climate-change denier.
Brian Fallon, a former Schumer aide, said Democrats can play offense on other issues that didn't get much notice in competitive Senate races this year: affirmative action, voting rights and the census.
After Democrats captured the House and picked up seven governorships last month, Schumer cast doubt on the possibility of striking a deal with Trump on immigration or anything of significance.
Senate Democrats say Schumer feels he has a lot more leverage with Trump now that Democrats control the House, which is one of the reasons he has rejected the possibility of reviving the deal he offered the president in January: full funding for the border wall in exchange for reauthorizing immigrant protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which Trump rescinded last year.
One Schumer confidant said he offered Trump border wall funding in exchange for reimplementing DACA protections because "The fear was that we would get overrun because they had everything" - the Senate, House and White House.
Schumer isn't reviving the border wall for DACA trade because Democrats "Now know we have a backstop in the House," the source said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/419969-schumer-gets-ready-to-go-on-the-offensive
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