{"id":15728,"date":"2025-11-16T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ro-khanna-identifies-dynamic-leaders-to-replace-schumer\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:46:47","slug":"ro-khanna-identifies-dynamic-leaders-to-replace-schumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ro-khanna-identifies-dynamic-leaders-to-replace-schumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ro Khanna identifies \u2018dynamic\u2019 leaders to replace Schumer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Ro Khanna is buckling down on criticisms of Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, throwing his support behind bolder Democrats as he calls for a change in Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n

The California Democrat told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that though Schumer was “terrific” under former President Joe Biden, the New York lawmaker no longer inspires confidence in Democratic voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is what is the future of Democratic leadership. Who is going to be effective? And most Democrats around the country just don’t think that person is Chuck Schumer,\u201d Khanna said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, he doesn’t inspire confidence. He’s not bold. He’s out of touch with the grassroots. He’s someone who cheer-led us into the war in Iraq. He doesn’t have the moral clarity on Gaza. He couldn’t say [Zohran] Mamdani’s name. And this was the final straw, where he was not strong on fighting for health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the Senate\u2019s vote to advance a variation on the House-passed stopgap last week \u2014 which passed only with the help of seven Democrats and one independent who caucuses with the party \u2014 Khanna accused Schumer of being ineffective<\/a> and called for his removal.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Khanna praised some leading Senate Democrats, calling Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.) a \u201ctop leader\u201d and Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.) and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) \u201cdynamic\u201d as well as saying he \u201cappreciates\u201d the ideology of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.).<\/p>\n

Some Democrats have rushed to Schumer\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n

In a separate interview with Welker on Sunday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) \u2014 who voted for the resolution \u2014 said Schumer has been an \u201ceffective leader.” <\/p>\n

Kaine also revealed he told Schumer ahead of the vote that he didn’t need a \u201cpermission slip\u201d from the minority leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing the minority leader is tough,\u201d said Kaine. \u201cWe don’t control what’s on the floor. And you know if you’re dealing with senators \u2026 it’s not exactly like senators just get in line and follow the leader.” <\/p>\n

“I don’t tell Ro Khanna or AOC or anybody else who you should pick as your House leader because I got a full-time job being a senator,” Kaine added. “I don’t need to freelance opinions about House leadership. They should focus on their own leadership and let senators do what we need to do to keep this country moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Ro Khanna is buckling down on criticisms of Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, throwing his support behind bolder Democrats as he calls for a change in Democratic leadership. The California Democrat told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that though Schumer was “terrific” under former President Joe Biden, the New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}