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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Why Senate Democrats Can’t Win Against Trump

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As Senate Democrats struggle in negotiations with Trump, Chuck Schumer's leadership continues to prove ineffective. Steve Schmidt breaks down Schumer's leadership challenges and explains the consequences of Democratic weakness in the face of Trump’s strategy. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

We're going to talk about two things today. The appeasement of Senate Democrats,

0:04.5

the Donald Trump, and the Quebec conference that's taking place the G7 meeting in Quebec

0:11.5

Canada that Marco Rubio is attending. This is the warning. Let me start out today by reading

0:19.3

from Politico, which gives an accurate description of what is going on within, well, I don't know what mind of Chuck Schumer.

0:31.5

Now, the White House is openly mocking and laughing at the weakness and the ineptitude of Chuck Schumer.

0:42.6

And before I say another word, last night with Stephen Beschloss, out a couple of thousand

0:48.8

people on a substack life. And every single person and every comment scrolling through had but one overwhelming

0:58.1

priority and concern, which was the immediate cessation of everything and anything that the

1:07.2

unelected, unappointed, unconfirmed, Elon Musk and his team of teenagers,

1:16.1

the Doge, children of the corn, are thrown out of the halls of government.

1:22.5

That's what the people want.

1:24.1

They want it to stop.

1:25.4

That's what Democratic constituencies want. And they want to know

1:30.6

everything that has happened. Democrats have the power to make this happen because Donald Trump,

1:39.2

who is the president, John Thune, who is the Senate majority Leader, and Mike Johnson, who is the Speaker of the

1:46.6

House, need Democratic votes. Now, Chuck Schumer has a job that requires an ability to negotiate.

1:55.9

Anybody like me, who's my age, knows if they grew up in New Jersey, that Donald Trump is a clown

2:04.5

and a con man, that he's a demagogue, that he is the Cleon, the demagogic leader that the founders

2:13.3

prophesied and worried about that has finally risen and taken control. But nobody ever viewed Donald

2:21.4

Trump as a great dealmaker. There is nobody. What deals? Dave McCormick, the new senator from

2:27.8

Pennsylvania, was the COO of Bridgewater, Ray Dalio's hedge fund. What deals did Dave McCormick do with Trump? What deals did

2:38.4

Jamie Morgan do with Trump? Who did deals with Trump? Nobody. He is a reality television show store

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