Progressives push for Warren as next Senate Democratic leader
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By Jonathan Easley - 03/27/15 10:55 AM EDT
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) announcement Friday that he will not seek reelection next year has progressive groups licking their chops at the prospect of seeing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as the Democratic leader.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer, currently Democrats' No. 3 in the Senate, is the heavy favorite to succeed Reid, but progressive groups have other ideas.
Democracy for America (DFA) and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) are urging Warren to run for president but say that if she passes, they’d back her or someone from her wing of the party as the next Democratic leader in the Senate.
“There are real concerns about whether Chuck Schumer should be the frontrunner for leadership in the Senate among progressives,” DFA spokesman Neil Sroka told The Hill. “The Wall Street wing of the party, that Chuck has been close to, is dying, and the Warren wing is rising. So if Sen. Warren chooses not to run for president … she should run for leader of the Senate. She’d make a great leader.”
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