Comedy Central’s Daily Show host Jon Stewart is backing calls to reject Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as soon-to-be anointed Senate majority leader, demanding Democrats instead find somebody new when they seize their congressional majorities in January.
\n\nSixty-three-year-old Stewart, a longtime critic of Schumer as Breitbart News has documented, shared his thoughts on The Weekly Show podcast with guest Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
\n\nThe sexagenarian pressed Sanders on whether Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) need to be swapped out for more dynamic leaders who do not rely solely on seniority protocols for their position, a call being made elsewhere amongst the left-wing Democrat support base.
\n\n“This gets into and it’s a much larger debate and it is very heated about whether Chuck Schumer should continue to be the majority leader of the Senate when it goes back over in January into that session, Hakeem Jeffries as well.
\n\n“Is he too tied to status quo solutions that maybe haven’t worked in the past? Is he too tied to the kinds of parliamentary protocols of the Senate and too deferential?” Stewart asked per a Mediaite report compiled by Zachary Leeman.
\n\nSanders added despite positive feelings from many Democrats change must…
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