Mitch McConnell will lead US Senate Republicans, Chuck Schumer to lead Democrats

Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.is elected minority leader for the upcoming 115th Congress.

Schumer replaces outgoing Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who is retiring.

Schumer is a tireless networker who hangs out most weekday mornings in the Senate gym to talk with colleagues, particularly his Republican friends, to try to cut bipartisan deals.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin was re-elected as Senate Democratic whip.

With that in mind, he expanded the Senate Democratic leadership team to include Vermont Sen.

The promotion of Sanders to a role in Senate leadership is presumably an acknowledgment that the Democratic Party has a serious problem with white working class voters, given the results of the presidential election.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who will serve as conference secretary.

Democrats avoided a potentially messy fight by electing Sen.

“I have decided that I will best be able to represent Vermonters’ voices, and reflect Vermont values and ideals, as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee”, Leahy said in the statement.

Skirmishes between Trump and Schumer will also reflect the ironic influence of the elite East Coast haven of NY on top-level politics in Washington – after an election decided in the industrial heartlands of the Rust Belt.

The lack of drama as senators chose their leaders was the opposite of the House, where both parties’ leadership elections have been more theatrical. His role will be to steer GOP bills to the desk of a president whose name he barely spoke during a campaign in which many Republicans viewed Trump and his comments on Muslims, veterans and others as political poison. She was elected assistant Democratic leader on Wednesday morning.

“And I told him just what I told you”.

Democrats have a new leadership lineup for next year and the all-Republican government.

Trump named the anti-establishment firebrand at the same time as he appointed top Republican Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff, blending pragmatism with a rabble-rousing edge in the first appointments of his new administration. “There is a yearning among people in both parties to get things done”, Schumer said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Steven Dennis before the election.

Sanders, for his part, hadn’t given much thought in previous years to running for a leadership position. During a closed-door organizing meeting, his unanimous reelection was greeted by a standing ovation of fellow Republican senators, aides said. In his new role, it appears he plans to galvanize that constituency to block Trump policies that would hurt average Americans.

When asked about this hole in the leadership, Schumer told reporters to “stay tuned”.