{"id":81289,"date":"2026-11-13T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/chuck-schumers-challenger-for-party-control-underscores-democrats-ideological-rift\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:56:28","slug":"chuck-schumers-challenger-for-party-control-underscores-democrats-ideological-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/chuck-schumers-challenger-for-party-control-underscores-democrats-ideological-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Schumer\u2019s challenger for party control underscores Democrats\u2019 ideological rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chris Van Hollen\u2019s policy credentials allowed his quick rise to roles usually reserved for the more tenured<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/13\/us-politics-latest-news-updates-democrats-republicans-donald-trump-van-hollen-chuck-schumer\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/12\/chris-van-hollen-chuck-schumer-senate-majority-leader\">Chris Van Hollen\u2019s challenge<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/chuck-schumer\">Chuck Schumer<\/a>\u2019s leadership of Senate Democrats presents an ideological and biographical contrast to the party as it takes control of Congress in two months.<\/p>\n<p>Though only about eight years younger than Schumer, Van Hollen is seen as a more progressive senator who has drawn attention for his opposition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s abusive immigration practices \u2013 visiting his constituent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kilmar-abrego-garcia\">Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda<\/a> after an unlawful deportation to El Salvador \u2013 as well as opposition to federal corruption and US support for the Israeli government\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/13\/chuck-schumer-democrat-party-control-ideology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chris Van Hollen\u2019s policy credentials allowed his quick rise to roles usually reserved for the more tenured US politics live \u2013 latest updates US senator Chris Van Hollen\u2019s challenge to Chuck Schumer\u2019s leadership of Senate Democrats presents an ideological and biographical contrast to the party as it takes control of Congress in two months. &#8230; <a title=\"Chuck Schumer\u2019s challenger for party control underscores Democrats\u2019 ideological rift\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/chuck-schumers-challenger-for-party-control-underscores-democrats-ideological-rift\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chuck Schumer\u2019s challenger for party control underscores Democrats\u2019 ideological rift\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}