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    As Van Hollen wages a challenge, Senate Democrats are torn on whom to elect as their leader

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    Maryland senator’s bid against Chuck Schumer for leadership could decide direction of the Democratic partyUS politics live – latest updatesEver since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Democratic officeholders and voters alike have been divided over whether their leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, is up to the task of taking the president on.That debate intensified on Thursday, when the Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen announced he will challenge Schumer for the post of Democratic Senate leader, which will become one of the most powerful jobs in Washington when the party takes control of Congress’s upper chamber next year. Continue reading… More

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      What the choice between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen for Senate leader is all about | Bernie Sanders

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      This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic partyThe election for Democratic Senate leader between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen must be understood for what it is.This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic party. It is a debate about whether the Democratic party remains a top-down party dominated by billionaire campaign contributors, inside-the-beltway consultants and 30-second TV ads, or whether we can transform it into a grassroots party of, by and for the working families of our country. Continue reading… More

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      Democrats fumbled the Hegseth impeachment. That could be a blessing in disguise | Claire Finkelstein

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      The failed move could lead to a more robust effort against the defense secretary in the next Congress. Here’s how it could lookA traffic jam, combined with disorganization on the part of Democrats, enabled House Republicans to scuttle the representative Thomas Massie’s articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth on Wednesday.While recriminations are now flying among Democrats, the fumble may have been a blessing in disguise. Democrats can now refocus the articles against the defense secretary, possibly to better effect. Continue reading… More

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      Chris Van Hollen to challenge Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader

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      Maryland Democrat challenges party leader after midterms sweep, saying: ‘The American people called for change’Chris Van Hollen, the Democratic senator of Maryland, announced on Thursday that he is challenging Chuck Schumer for the role of Senate majority leader when Democrats regain the chamber’s majority in January.“In this election, the American people called for change. They called for a change from Donald Trump’s disastrous policies – but even bigger than that, a change from the status quo that isn’t working for working people,” Van Hollen said in a statement posted on social media. Continue reading… More

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      Pete Hegseth’s wake of destruction at the Pentagon – Stateside with Kai and Carter

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      Pete Hegseth has managed to dodge an impeachment trial, for the second time. And Republicans have avoided — for now — a major public accounting of the damage done at the Pentagon during Hegseth’s tenure. Thomas Massie’s articles of impeachment detail charges that are likely to return when Democrats take the majority next year. Kai Wright speaks with Guardian senior political enterprise reporter Aram Roston about how people inside the military have reacted to the impeachment and to Hegseth’s tenure, from the boat strikes in the Caribbean to the massive loss of experienced leadership and a dramatic depletion of munitions in Iran. Roston, who has covered the Pentagon across several administrations, describes a Pentagon shaken up in ways he’s never before seen. Continue reading… More

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      Democrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in stunning Mississippi Senate win

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      Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982Democrat Scott Colom defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since Reconstruction, in a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states.“All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this,” Colom told a crowd of hundreds who on Wednesday had gathered at Tougaloo College for his victory party. “I had the courage to believe in Mississippi. I had the courage to understand that we can show the country that Mississippi matters.” Continue reading… More

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      How Scott Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from Democrats

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      Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since ReconstructionThe ad is simple, less than half a minute long, but many say it was the moment the nation took notice of Mississippi’s US Senate race.In it, the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer, answers a reporter’s question about the rising price of beef: “You know, you have so many proteins to choose from,” she says. Continue reading… More

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      US House votes to derail impeachment of Pete Hegseth – video

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      Republicans in the US House of Representatives banded together on Tuesday, 10 November, to derail an effort to impeach defense secretary Pete Hegseth. The chamber voted 211 to 204 in favor of a motion to refer the impeachment charges to the Republican-led House judiciary committee, effectively stopping the effort to impeach Hegseth sponsored by Kentucky Republican representative Thomas MassieHouse Republicans block effort to impeach Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth Continue reading… More

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      House Republicans block effort to impeach Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth

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      Trump ally, accused of an array of illegal acts, had earlier condemned impeachment push as ‘a farce and a stunt’House Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort to impeach Pete Hegseth, rejecting allegations that the defense secretary had repeatedly violated the constitution through his handling of the Iran war and other conflicts globally.The vote came a week after Republicans lost control of the Senate and House of Representatives in their worst midterm election in more than a half century, and underscored how lawmakers remain wary of crossing Donald Trump, who has signaled his continued support for Hegseth. Continue reading… More