{"id":7537,"date":"2025-03-20T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dodging-your-question-bennet-stops-short-of-calling-on-schumer-to-resign-but-invokes-the-biden-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:06:05","slug":"dodging-your-question-bennet-stops-short-of-calling-on-schumer-to-resign-but-invokes-the-biden-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dodging-your-question-bennet-stops-short-of-calling-on-schumer-to-resign-but-invokes-the-biden-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dodging your question\u2019: Bennet stops short of calling on Schumer to resign \u2014 but invokes the Biden fight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Bennet<\/a> stopped short of calling for Chuck Schumer<\/a> to step aside as Senate Democrats’ leader \u2014 though he pointedly compared the situation to the party\u2019s internal strife over then-President Joe Biden serving as the party\u2019s nominee last summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the leadership question, it\u2019s always better to examine whether folks are in the right place, and we\u2019re certainly going to have that conversation,\u201d the Coloradoan said in a town hall in Golden, Colorado, Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Bennet sidestepped a question about whether he would call for Schumer to step down, referencing the end of Biden\u2019s disastrous 2024 election bid where the president ultimately stepped aside after growing agitation from other elected Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn dodging your question, let me just say: It\u2019s important for people to know when it\u2019s time to go, and I think in the case of Joe Biden, and we\u2019re going to have conversations I\u2019m sure in the foreseeable future, about all the Democratic leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bennet\u2019s statement comes almost a week after Schumer backed a GOP funding bill that most of his caucus voted against<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bennet \u2014 a one-time 2020 presidential candidate \u2014 was one of the earliest Senate Democrats to publicly grapple with Biden\u2019s position<\/a> at the top of the ticket in 2024. He has publicly expressed interest in a potential run for Colorado governor next year.<\/p>\n

Schumer has since faced intense scrutiny<\/a> from his party \u2014 and particularly members of the House \u2014 but has repeatedly contended the move was necessary to stave off a government shutdown that he believes would have allowed President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to accelerate their crusade to hollow out federal agencies.<\/p>\n

That, he has said, could also shunt critical public services like food benefits or mass transit funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a smart politician, I can read what people want,\u201d Schumer told BLN\u2019s Chris Hayes on Tuesday night. But Republicans, he continued, put forward a \u201cterrible, terrible, bill,\u201d and a shutdown would have been \u201cso much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-Mass.) said at a town hall earlier this week that Schumer \u201cwas wrong,\u201d WBUR reported<\/a>, but otherwise did not address if he should remain leader.<\/p>\n

Much of this resentment is concentrated among House Democrats, who were largely united in voting against the GOP bill. Senate Democrats have largely held their tongues.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> \u2014 a longtime partner of Schumer\u2019s \u2014 added to the fire<\/a>, saying, \u201cI myself don\u2019t give away anything for nothing. \u2026 I think that\u2019s what happened the other day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Bennet stopped short of calling for Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate Democrats’ leader \u2014 though he pointedly compared the situation to the party\u2019s internal strife over then-President Joe Biden serving as the party\u2019s nominee last summer. \u201cOn the leadership question, it\u2019s always better to examine whether folks are in the right place, […]<\/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-7537","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\/7537","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=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}