Sanders, Slotkin Don't Support Chuck Schumer As Leader
- Newsrooms
- 14
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
0 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 15 to 16 newsrooms by 3:47am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time.
1File photo: Chuck Schumer
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has added his name to the growing list of liberal-minded lawmakers asking Chuck Schumer to hand over the reins of the Senate. “I like Chuck. Nobody works harder than Chuck Schumer,” Sanders said at a joint press conference with Senator Elissa Slotkin Tuesday.
Hot Air didn’t include a summary, so this is The New Republic’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Chuck Schumer
Charles Ellis Schumer is an American politician serving since 1999 as a United States senator from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and served as Senate majority leader from 2021 to 2025. He has served two stints as Senate minority leader, from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025.4
The story so far
14 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 19
- Newsrooms and sources
- 14
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: Breitbart, 1 hr 14 min before anyone else.
Reported by 14 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: ABC News and New York Post (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 14
- Over
- 10.1 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.6 hr
Sources and credits
- 1
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- 2
Hot Air: Sanders, Slotkin Don't Support Chuck Schumer As Leader
- 3
The New Republic: Bernie Sanders Warns Chuck Schumer His Days as Senate Leader Are Up
- 4
Background: “Chuck Schumer”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)



