Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s headaches may only just be getting started after his handpicked candidate to take down Republican Sen. Susan Collins was forced to drop out early in Maine’s Democratic primary.
In races across the country for the Senate, progressive candidates are running serious, well-funded campaigns against more traditional Democrats.
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Moderate Democrats are afraid that if they pick progressive candidates, especially those with a history of bad behavior, it will hurt their chances of flipping important Senate seats.
Progressives say that the current leaders of political parties are using an old, one-size-fits-all method to choose who is “electable.”
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Axios detailed a list of upcoming Democratic primaries where older Democrats are running against younger, more far-left candidates:
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–Michigan: Rep. Haley Stevens is the establishment favorite and is seen by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee as the strongest candidate in the fall. Polls show she’s locked in a tight race with the Bernie Sanders-backed former public health official Abdul El-Sayed and the digitally savvy liberal state Sen. Mallory McMorrow.
–Minnesota: Rep. Angie Craig, a battle-tested swing-seat Democrat, is viewed by liberals as the party leaders’ preferred candidate. Peggy Flanagan, the progressive lieutenant governor who has attacked Craig as too squishy on ICE, has led in polling.
–Iowa: Schumer and his allies believe Josh Turek, a state lawmaker and Paralympic gold medalist, has the best chance in the general election. Recent polling conducted by a group supporting Turek shows him ahead by a comfortable margin. But Turek’s progressive opponent, Zach Wahls, matched him in first-quarter fundraising, and past polls have shown him as more competitive.
Democrats keep making headlines for all of the wrong reasons.
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House Democrats were largely against a resolution supporting law enforcement amid a spike in assaults on police last year.
Just 29 House Democrats voted for a Republican measure praising the “extraordinary sacrifice” of law enforcement officers and denouncing the “defund the police” campaign for endangering public safety.
However, 173 Democrats voted against the motion, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and every GOP representative in attendance voted in favor.
“We want to take that best practice of respecting law enforcement in Iowa to the nation’s capital, and I was thrilled that we got bipartisan support,” Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, who introduced the measure, said in an interview with Fox News.
But the Iowa Republican said he expected his resolution to receive unanimous backing.
“I think it unfortunately puts a real spotlight on a chasm we have between those who support law and order and those who are supporting those who undermine it,” Nunn said.
The decision follows a rise in assaults against law enforcement officers to a 10-year high last year, an F.B.I. report released Monday showed.
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The number of officers murdered declined from 2024 to 2025.
Some Democrats likely bristled at language in the resolution criticizing left-wing activists for backing the “defund the police” campaign and sanctuary city policies that put officers’ safety in danger.
Nunn’s measure also lauded the Trump administration’s tough law and order policies for leading to a record reduction in violent crime, including the United States achieving its lowest homicide rate in more than a century last year.
“We are at a 125-year low for murder rates, 10-year low for drug overdoses,” Nunn told Fox News Digital. “These are things that good community policing, that our law enforcement officers are doing every day, have had a really positive impact.”
The vote took place during National Police Week, a time to recognize the service and sacrifice of dead law enforcement officers across the country.
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