Schumer on 2018: ‘I’d Be Very Worried If I Were Donald Trump and the Republicans About the 2020 Elections’

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SCHUMER: “Let me say this, Jake. The election was a great victory for Democrats, taking back the house with up to 35 seats is huge. Seven governorships, lots of legislative races, lower state legislative races that we picked up seats. Trump and the Republicans are trying to say, well, but the Senate showed that we really won. Nothing could be further from the truth. First, if you would have told us a couple of years ago that we would be as close as we are, people would say we’re crazy. They were saying we would lose eight to ten seats and even 40 votes in the Senate. We had ten states where Donald Trump won the election in 2016, our senators won in six of those ten with one still — Florida still in contest. And in the three states that carried trump to victory, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, not only did democratic senators win by double digits in two of them, but Republicans told trump he couldn’t even set foot in those states because he was so unpopular. And so this is a great victory. For Donald Trump to claim because he won a Senate race in North Dakota or Indiana or Missouri, states he won by 19, 19 and 36%, that shows how weak — I would be very worried if I were Donald Trump and the Republicans about the 2020 elections if all they can claim is they won in North Dakota. We greatly regret the loss of wonderful people, great senators like Heitkamp, Donnelly and Mccaskill but hardly a victory in those three states is any vindication for the route of the Republicans.”