Pritzker warns Democrats over ‘internecine warfare’
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) warned his fellow Democrats of “internecine warfare” as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) faces backlash over his vote to advance the continuing resolution last week.
“I do not think that Democrats should be jumping into internecine warfare,” Pritzker told Semafor about the infighting within the party.
Schumer is facing sharp scrutiny from his fellow Democrats after he voted to advance the GOP-drafted bill in the Senate, looking to avoid a government shutdown last week. All but one House Democrat voted against the measure.
Just Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, voted in favor of the bill in the upper chamber.
Schumer, who is 74, has insisted he isn’t going anywhere, even as some party members float New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) to challenge him in 2028.
Pritzker, who urged congressional Democrats to vote against the funding bill, said Schumer “was wrong” to vote in favor of it, but cautioned his party against infighting.
“I also know that he wants those [Democrats who voted yes] want, the same things that [Ocasio-Cortez] and I want,” he said. “Which is, we’ve got to overcome what we see as the crumbling of a constitutional republic and the taking away of services from people who matter.”
While the shutdown debate exposed divides within the party, Senate Democrats are ramping up the urgency for soul-searching as things change quickly in Washington under GOP control.
The funding debacle came just as the Democratic Party received its worst favorability rating from the American public in decades, proving that the party has a lot of ground to make up.
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