Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen to challenge Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader

By Amelia Twyman and Mayah Nachman U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced in an interview with MS NOW Thursday night he is planning to challenge longtime party figurehead Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for Senate majority leader. Rumors of the senator’s potential majority leader bid began circulating after the Nov. 3 midterm elections, when Democrats took back control of both chambers of Congress in a historic night for the party. Van Hollen has represented Maryland in the Senate since 2017 and previously served the state’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for more than a decade. “In this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people [and] fueled by political corruption,” Van Hollen wrote in a Thursday night post on X. “To deliver, we need new leadership.

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