Schumer calls on ‘non-MAGA Republicans’ to work with Democrats
by Jared Gans - 11/15/22 11:09 AM ET
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on “non-MAGA Republicans” to work with Democrats to pass legislation in the next two years as each party is likely to control one house of Congress.
Schumer told The New York Times in an interview on Monday that he plans to reach out to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republicans to work with Democrats to make accomplishments instead of just remaining in a stalemate.
“What gives us the opening is that they know embracing Trump and MAGA is a failure,” he said. “Not all Republicans know it, but a large number do.”
Democrats are projected to hold onto their majority in the Senate, while the Republican Party is likely to win control of the House but by a much narrower margin that was originally expected after Democratic candidates outperformed the polls in many races across the country.
Many Trump-backed candidates who repeated the former president’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election being stolen lost in key contests that determined the makeup of next session’s Congress.
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