Only Eight GOP Senators Have Called for a Delay In Senate Leadership Elections as John Thune Rushes to Push a Re-Election Vote;
Charles Schumer Might Be Purged by the Islamocommunists He Supported

John Thune and his cronies want to rush the election of the next Senate leaders and hold a vote today.

Eight GOP senators have called for a delay to figure out if they need "new faces," given the big loss.

But it takes a majority of GOP senators to vote for a delay.

Senator Ron Johnson says if they hold the vote today, he'll walk out.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pledged to walk out of the room if his Republican colleagues proceed with leadership elections on Tuesday, after calling a conference to discuss the party's direction following significant losses for the GOP in the midterm elections.

"If you hold the election, I'll leave the room," he told the Washington Examiner in a Monday interview. "I'm not going to participate in elections for leadership tomorrow."

To delay internal elections, which are cast by secret ballot, Johnson will need support from a majority of the Senate GOP conference.

The Wisconsin Republican has been floated as a potential replacement for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) for when Democrats take control of the Senate in January, as some conservatives air frustration with Thune's leadership.

Johnson, who has denied his interest in leadership in the past, again shot down the prospect on Monday, but he did not definitively rule it out.

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The senator added that his request for a conference meeting was not a "hostile act" and was only intended to give the GOP the time to assess whether they wanted a change in leadership.

"We all like John Thune. We like him, OK?" Johnson said. "I don't want to say anything bad about him, but again, at some point in time, our supporters absolutely believe we have to hold people accountable, and probably are looking for a new face, or new faces."

GOP senators met today and did not agree on either holding or delaying the election.

Senate Republicans met Tuesday to discuss their future and were expected to reconvene in the afternoon as they decide whether to keep South Dakota Sen. John Thune as their leader. The meetings come just a week after steep losses in the midterm elections that cost them their majority.

Thune is expected to be reelected in the secret ballot election, given that he remains popular with his GOP colleagues and is so far running unopposed. But senators left the closed-door meeting after two hours of discussions with no resolution on a way forward after an election wipeout that cost them at least seven Senate seats.

"We want to be thoughtful and do the right thing," said West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice as the meeting broke up. He said no obvious alternative had emerged, but "there is a legitimate argument that, good gracious, if we lost as badly as we lost, why would we continue on with the same leadership?"

At the same time, the current GOP leadership "didn't cause this problem to happen," Justice said. "They do a good job."

Did they?

The Washington Times writes that Chuck Schumer might lose his own post as Democrat leader as the Islamocommunists want a more radical -- and, let me add, less Jewish -- leader.

In a way, it is poetic justice. The newly elected hard-left Democrats whom Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York nurtured and fed now want his blood.

Several of the Democrats elected this year to the Senate, such as Troy Jackson of Maine, Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, Adam Hamilton of Kansas and James Talarico of Texas, have announced that they will not support Mr. Schumer for majority leader when the new Congress convenes next year.

Veteran Democrats -- such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Christopher Murphy of Connecticut and Tina Smith of Minnesota -- have voiced frustration with Mr. Schumer's candidate recruitment and leadership in legislative battles.

Once the militants won their primaries, Mr. Schumer did everything he could to support them, including providing significant funding through his Senate Majority PAC.

Mr. Schumer's PAC gave $30 million to Mr. El-Sayed, despite the Michigander's hatred of Israel. Mr. El-Sayed will not even say whether he believes Israel has a right to exist, while the Palestinian cause is dear to his heart. That did not seem to present a problem for Mr. Schumer, who is Jewish.

When a Muslim terrorist attacked a synagogue that housed a kindergarten, preschool and daycare in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 12, while condemning the attack, Mr. El-Sayed said, "Hurt people hurt people." This would seem to rationalize the attack on children by a man whose brother Ibrahim, identified by Israel as a Hezbollah commander, was killed in Lebanon.

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Though a liberal, Mr. Schumer is not liberal enough for members of the Democratic Senate class of 2026. They want a minority leader in their own image -- not one who is merely skeptical of Israeli policies, but one who is rabidly anti-Israel; not one who seeks to reform the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, but one who wishes to "rip it apart," in the words of Sen.-elect Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota.

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Even if Mr. Schumer somehow survives the purge, he will be constantly looking over his shoulder to see how close the wolves are and what he needs to do to appease them next.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM

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