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Posted on 11/12/2026 9:52:48 AM PST by Red Badger
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) already has a replacement in mind for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as Senate minority leader once Democrats take advantage of their new congressional majorities in January.
Sanders joined Jon Stewart on the latest episode of The Weekly Show, which will release in full on Wednesday, to discuss the midterm results and what comes next for the Democratic Party.
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“His institutional knowledge is helpful, but if it’s not helpful to utilize to move the system urgently, then what are we doing?” Stewart said.
The Daily Show host asked Sanders if he had replacements in mind, and Sanders named Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). Van Hollen has said he is open to challenging Schumer’s position.
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isn’t this the guy who fell in love with that illegal alien?
Typical of democrats. Name a simpleton backbencher who is only famous for his conjugal visit with an illegal sex trafficker.
Why does Bernie the Commie get any say in who the Senate Majority Leader is? Shouldn’t that be the decision of the Democrats, you know the party that Marxist Bernie is NOT a member of?
WIKI
Van Hollen ran for the United States Senate in 2016 to replace retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski. He defeated U.S. Representative Donna Edwards in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 61% of the vote to Republican nominee Kathy Szeliga’s 36%. He was reelected in 2022 with nearly 66% of the vote to Republican nominee Chris Chaffee’s 34%. Van Hollen chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) from 2017 to 2019. Van Hollen became Maryland’s senior senator when Ben Cardin retired from the Senate in 2025. Van Hollen is set to become the dean of Maryland’s congressional delegation in 2027, as longtime Representative Steny Hoyer has announced his retirement.
Van Hollen was born in Karachi, Pakistan, the eldest of three children of American parents, Edith Eliza (née Farnsworth) and Christopher Van Hollen. His father was a Foreign Service officer who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs (1969–1972) and U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1972–1976); his mother worked in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, where she served as chief of the intelligence bureau for South Asia. He spent parts of his early life in Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka. He returned to the United States for his junior year of high school, and attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had once taught.
He is an alumnus of the Kodaikanal International School (in Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, India). In 1982, Van Hollen graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. He continued his studies at Harvard University, where he earned a Master of Public Policy concentrating in national security studies from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1985. He then earned a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1990.
Van Hollen served in the Maryland General Assembly from 1991 to 2003, first in the House of Delegates (1991–1995) and then in the State Senate (1995–2003). In the Senate, he served on the Budget and Taxation Committee and the Health and Human Services Subcommittee. He led successful efforts to raise the tobacco tax, prohibit oil drilling in the Chesapeake Bay, mandate trigger locks for guns, and increase funding for education and healthcare. In 2002, The Washington Post called Van Hollen “one of the most accomplished members of the General Assembly.
According to his campaign website, Van Hollen supports an increase in the minimum wage, paid sick leave, an expansion of the earned income tax credit, equal pay for women, an increase in the child care tax credit, and a financial transaction tax.
more at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Van_Hollen
He gets to vote just like the Repubbies do...............
Van Hollen is a twin of Tim Kaine. Unbelievable. Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dumb. I swear they are the same person.
Interesting. Thanks for the information.
Van Hollen was born in Karachi, Pakistan, the eldest of three children of American parents, Edith Eliza (née Farnsworth) and Christopher Van Hollen. His father was a Foreign Service officer who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs (1969–1972) and U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1972–1976); his mother worked in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, where she served as chief of the intelligence bureau for South Asia. He spent parts of his early life in Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka.
That pretty much explains everything.
I agree he gets to vote but since he is not a member of the Democrat Party he should only have that one vote and just as much influence as each Republican Senator in who the Democrats put forward, exactly zero.
I agree he gets to vote but since he is not a member of the Democrat Party he should only have that one vote and just as much influence as each Republican Senator in who the Democrats put forward, exactly zero.
Wow...Democrats are full of dim-witted idiots who can’t think of an original idea.
Yep.
I’m sick and tired of Bernie.
(Still waiting for the fake Socialist to give me one of his three houses. Nobody needs three houses...)
Why not stay with Thune? He’s done a pretty good job for them.
People are tired of congressmen who have decades in congress.
Washington has a status quo because it has people who make a career on status quo
Bernie has been in Congress for 36 years. He’s the embodiment of the status quo.
Like supporters of terrorism and communism, it is all part of that "big tent" Sanders says should be welcomed into the party.
I’m not going to look and see if there’s a clip. He delivers even “good morning” in angry rant mode, loud, waiving his finger, bulging eyes and disheveled hair. Amazing that that crazy old crank from 10 years ago is now a thought leader. Too bad he didn’t kick off from a stroke back then during one of his tirades. Might have helped the Republican; certainly couldn’t hurt
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