WASHINGTON â Sen. Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, and several Democratic senators running for president aligned themselves with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday, standing by their calls for Al Franken to resign from the Senate more than 18 months ago following numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.
The Democratic National Committee has selected Milwaukee as the site of its national convention, placing a spotlight on a key Midwestern battleground state that Democrats lost for the first time in three decades in 2016 and see as central to the partyâs efforts to reclaim the White House.
After spending the next two months âdeeply depressed,â the junior senator from New York experienced what she called the most inspiring day of her political life: the womenâs march.