“The practical effects of the 51-seat majority: It’s big. It’s significant. We can breathe a sigh of relief,” Senate Majority Leader Schumer says, after Sen. Warnock won the Georgia runoff and secured an outright majority in the Senate for Democrats.
The New York Democrat said he was “brought to tears last night” watching Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., in his re-election victory speech, talk about how his mother went from picking cotton and tobacco as a teenager to picking her son to be a U.S. senator. He showered praise on Warnock for an “inspiring” campaign.: It’s big. It’s significant. We can breathe a sigh of relief,” Schumer told reporters at a press conference in Washington.
Schumer attributed it to several factors. He said the Democrats had “great candidates.” He credited legislative wins. He said Americans “began to realize how far-right these MAGA Republicans had gone” as they saw some Republicans struggle to condemn “hooligans” and “insurrectionists” who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Last month, after a poor general election showing and before the Georgia runoff, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans failed with moderate voters. “It’s going to mean that our committees will have greater oversight ability, subpoena power,” Schumer said. “And people say, ‘Well, it’s the Biden administration.’ Oh, no, no, no. Subpoena power can deal with corporate corruption and inequities and other problems throughout the country.”
"A good number of the non-MAGA Republicans — including some who won in New York, I know a few of them pretty well and worked with them when they were in other offices — realize that if they follow a MAGA direction, they're going to lose, And so I think there's doing to be a real imperative for them to work with us."
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