New York Sen. Chuck Schumer led Senate Democrats in attempting to rein in Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to a Tuesday report in The Hill.
Sanders expressed his “disappointment” in Democrats in the Senate for resisting his push to make the Democratic party more progressive.
The Independent Senator lost against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primary. Sanders pledged to use his influence to push the Democrats to the left after President Donald Trump won in November.
“You cannot do that if you’re in the leadership,” an unnamed Democrat told The Hill about Sanders’ actions, causing Schumer to call a meeting with Sanders and Democratic leadership to tell the errant progressive to “play nice” with other Senators.
Other Senators like former presidential candidate Jim Webb believe that the Democratic party has gone too far to the left, according to a recent interview with NBC’s Meet the Press.
“You’ve lost white working people. You’ve lost flyover land, and you saw in this election what happens when people get frustrated enough that they say, ‘I’m not going to take this,'” he said about the party’s losses in November.
“There is an aristocracy now that pervades American politics. It’s got to be broken somehow in both parties, and I think that’s what the Trump message was that echoed so strongly in these flyover communities.”
Webb concluded by saying that the party moved too far to the left, and leadership currently doesn’t have a united message.
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