Chuck Schumer's political career is spiraling, and it's only getting worse. Back in March, the Senate minority leader made what he thought was a pragmatic move by voting for the House-passed continuing resolution. Instead of earning him credibility as a dealmaker, it provoked a revolt from the Democratic Party's increasingly militant left-wing base. The backlash was swift and brutal.
Socialist firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez emerged as the face of the resistance against Schumer. Calls for her to challenge him in a Democratic primary gained traction quickly, and the polling backed it up. A hypothetical matchup showed AOC crushing Schumer in a hypothetical primary. For a longtime senator in party leadership, those numbers were nothing short of humiliating.
Now, since then, Schumer learned his lesson. He decided the only way to protect his political future was to go full resistance mode and appease the radical left. When the next funding fight came around, Schumer did exactly what his base demanded. He shut down the government to "resist Trump." It was political theater designed to win back the activists who had turned on him.
But here's the problem. Even that wasn't enough. When the Senate voted Sunday night to end debate over the continuing resolution and reopen the government after 40 days of being shut down, eight Democrats broke ranks and voted with Republicans. Schumer wasn't one of them, but it didn't matter. The left still blamed him for failing to keep his caucus in line. The very people he tried so hard to please are now demanding his head.
"Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) wrote on X after the vote. "If you can't lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?"
Schumer tried to salvage the situation by bashing the very deal his own party members helped broker. In a floor speech Monday, he called the compromise a "Republican bill" and claimed that Republicans now own the healthcare crisis. "They knew it was coming. We wanted to fix it and they said no, and now it is on them," Schumer said. It was a desperate attempt to shift blame, but nobody was buying it.
Even the liberal media turned on him. Over at MSNBC, they’re livid that a deal was made. Sunny Hostin from The View declared Schumer's "days are over." She didn't hold back. "So the bottom line is, the Democrats went into, after a blue wave, the American people saying, 'We do want an opposition.' The working people want the Democratic Party to fight for them. And now, they just caved and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer—his days are over. And if he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go. He needs to be replaced," Hostin said.
BREAKING: After a stream of half truths and outright misinformation, The View’s Sunny Hostin turns on Chuck Schumer and calls on him to step down as minority leader.
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) November 10, 2025
"If he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go. He needs to be replaced."
The Democrat crash out… pic.twitter.com/Qo1aIq9fZo
Now, Hostin isn’t exactly what you would call intelligent, but she may not be wrong here. He may not have voted to end the filibuster on the CR, but he is nevertheless being blamed for not keeping his caucus in line.
Schumer tried to make this a Republican shutdown, but he failed spectacularly. The irony is rich. His party turned on him in March when he supported the continuing resolution, and now they're turning on him again even though he didn't support it this time. He can't win. The Democratic Party is looking to replace the old guard with younger, more radical leadership, and Schumer is squarely in the crosshairs. Schumer thought blanket resistance to Trump would protect his political capital. He was wrong. The political winds have shifted, and they're ready to knock him down.
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Schumer is not up for reelection until 2028, but at this rate, he may need to start thinking seriously about retirement rather than face a humiliating ouster. His attempts to balance pragmatism with appeasing the far left have left him with no allies and no path forward. The left doesn't trust him, and the center thinks he's weak. Chuck Schumer's political future looks grimmer by the day.
