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Did Chuck Schumer fight half the Democratic Senate winners?
Yes, he’s a comedian, but for PolitiFact, my colleague Cami Henry-Seymore and I fact-checked Jon Stewart’s podcast statement that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer “fought tooth and nail against half of these” Democrats who won Senate races.
Schumer is getting lots of heat among the Democratic rank and file for initially backing Haley Stevens in Michigan over Abdul El-Sayed, but this ignores that Schumer also recruited such winning Senate candidates as Sherrod Brown, Roy Cooper and Josh Turek — and potential winners Mary Peltola and Scott Colom — into their midterm races.
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