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I want to kick off this morning with a look at our top from this morning's newsletter.

We are doing our regular series leader look, where we focus on Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer today.

Tomorrow, we'll take a look at Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader

Hakeem Jeffreys. This is kind of our stress test, right, of how each of the leaders are

doing at this point of time. What are their challenges, their opportunities, their wins, their losses,

what we should be paying attention to. We're going to start with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,

which I think is actually probably the most interesting time to take a look at Schumer, frankly.

You know, he has undergone one of his toughest periods as Democratic leader since taking over

the job in 2017. This all goes back to the continuing resolution in mid-March,

right? He has been hammered, I mean, just hammered by progressives for allowing passage of the

long-term continuing resolution to fund the federal government. This left his standing severely

damaged. And we're still, it's unclear,

I think, whether he fully recovers is he able to get back. Progressives on a different issue.

You know, if you just zoom out, there was no chance the Schumer and Senate Democrats were ever

going to vote for a shutdown. But Schumer at one point did give mixed signals on whether he'd seek

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