The Maryland Democrat has been critical of Schumer, who has led the caucus for nearly a decade.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced Thursday that he would challenge Chuck Schumer for the top Democratic leadership role in the Senate, arguing the party needs to take a more populist direction.
“In this election, the American people called for change. They called for a change from Donald Trump’s disastrous policies — but even bigger than that, a change from the status quo that isn’t working for working people,” Van Hollen, who represents Maryland, said in a statement obtained by The Washington Sun.
Why would that dinosaur be better than the other dinosaurs. Really, this guy is a nobody and this post could be nothing more than an ad or push by a hostile government. Seriously, who had ever heard of this guy before today.
For one thing, 67 ≠ 75.
The latter, Chuck Schumer’s age, is at or past the cutoff where cognitive decline becomes the norm rather than the exception for men. 67 is not.
With regards to the economy, Van Hollen supports an increase in the minimum wage, paid sick leave, an expansion of the earned income tax credit, equal pay for women, an increase in the child care tax credit, and a financial transaction tax.[70]. All of these are extremely popular positions and all but at most one or two are opposed by Schumer.
With regard to the West’s favorite fascist apartheid state: Chuck Schumer will always support using tax money to support the many atrocities of Israel.He’s described his job as “making sure the American Left is pro Israel”
Van Hollen was one of only 11 senators to vote for Bernie Sander’s resolution that the Foreign Assistance Act’s human rights provision should apply to Israel, one of 15 to vote for Bernie’s resolution to cancel $8.8b in bomb and ammunition sales to them by the Trump kakistocracy.
In July 2025, Van Hollen called for an end to funding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for its role in mass killings in the Gaza Strip and a restoration of funding for UNRWA.[79] In September 2026, he introduced Senate Resolution 852, which would require the State Department to report on Israel’s human rights practices and violence in the West Bank, citing the killings of nine Americans by Israelis in the West Bank.[80]
He’s in favor of Medicare for All, which Schumer has fought tooth and nail at every opportunity.
In October 2024, Van Hollen voted against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 as amended,[99] which restricted gender-affirming care in the military. The bill was later signed regardless by Joe Biden.[100] and Schumer of course voted for it.
If you can’t tell the difference between Schumer and Van Hollen, that’s a YOU problem.
Nope. This guy is a progressive Senator, something that there should be many more of.
Wtf kind of party loyalist crack are you smoking?! 🤦🏻
Dozens of millions of people.
To those not from Maryland and not very steeped in politics, he’s mostly known as the senator who visited his constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the El Salvador torture factory the Trump kakistocracy had sent him to.
I watched his Psaki interview, and he also very strongly rejected funding from AIPAC, even saying that if he was Leader, the DSCC would NOT accept money from AIPAC. Rejecting Israel is a massive difference between him and Schmuck, who can’t resist being obsequious to Israel.
Excuse me for not trusting a random old white man that’s been leading us into the absolute bullshit of a world we live in now.
He can get fucked like the rest of them.
That would be the Senate (Minority, former majority) LEADER, which Schumer has been since 2015, the year when the bullshit REALLY started going from “awful” to “bizarre, nonsensical, and frightening”.
Van Hollen is OPPOSING the shit you’re accusing him of being responsible for.
Harry Reid was in then. Then Pelosi was speaker of the house and schumer was her bff minority/majority leader from 2017 on for a while.
He sure wasn’t being out spoken about their bullshit then or ever. No one even knows his name. He certainly is not some sort of opposition to the status quo, and never has been.
I’m not falling for it, he’s another old ass white rich man. He can get fucked like the other POS manipulative fucks. They wouldn’t even be considering him if he wasn’t “willing to play ball,” with trumps BS far right government.
Is Bernie also in that group? If Marx were alive today would he just be another old white guy who was out of touch?
There are people everywhere who are not so different from you. But the powers that be are working hard to make sure we don’t recognize that.
Implying it’s just racism/sexism against white men without saying it directly? Lol. OK, I’ll block you.
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