The second biggest loser in the 2024 election is Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who will be demoted from the powerful majority leader in the U.S. Senate to the nearly powerless minority leader. .
Schumer's relegation to the minority, along with 46 other Democrats, was smoothed out by his support for President Joe Biden's maximum immigration policies.
The Schumer-backed policy imported nearly 9 million Southern immigrants and ensured the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and the loss of three Democratic-held Senate seats. The loss of those three seats gave Republicans a new 53-seat majority in the Senate, forcing Schumer to hand over the gavel and return to minority status.
Additionally, this is the second time Schumer has lost his job as majority leader for prioritizing mass immigration over investing in the prosperity, productivity and births of Americans.
In 2014, Democrats lost five seats in the Senate after President Barack Obama welcomed illegal immigrants and pushed for passage of the “Gang of Eight” amnesty and low-wage labor legislation. Schumer supported the bill, which canceled his planned promotion to Senate Majority Leader in 2015.
By 2022, Mr. Schumer had forgotten about his 2014 election debacle and was once again touting mass immigration directed by Mr. Biden's pro-immigration border director, Alejandro Mayorkas.
The 2024 election was a replay of the 2014 election, in part because both disasters were precipitated by Democrats' unpopular welcome to millions of immigrants.
Democratic senators blame Schumer's support for his downfall. “We have destroyed ourselves on immigration in a completely predictable and completely manageable way,” the Democratic senator said. hill Report for November 29th. “It's political malpractice. It's not someone else's fault. It's not a group pushing us around,” the senator added.
Mr. Schumer has long supported immigrants over American citizens. “We are nothing if we are not a nation of immigrants,” he told pro-immigration business leaders in 2020.
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But elites and big donors in his hometown of New York City have other motivations for funding pro-immigration politicians.
A government-induced influx of low-wage immigrants will sharply increase their real estate assets and reduce local labor costs. This influx also masks the city government's failure to reform its educational institutions, weakening the economic influence of middle-class New Yorkers who could collectively elect a reformist mayor and governor. .
As Americans flee Democratic-controlled, large, poorly run cities, “international migration pyramid schemes are the only way to avoid the demographic catastrophe loop of cities like New York and San Francisco,” says author Michael Lind. wrote in a paper published in September 2023. article for compact magazine.
But Mr. Schumer and his party also rely heavily on billionaire donors based in his hometown of New York and California, home of failed presidential candidate Harris.
The party's pro-immigration donors are represented by FWD.us, where his top lobbyists have accused Democrats of not providing enough economic support to the flood of immigrants seeking Biden's wealth. There is.
Mark Zuckerberg and his founding army West Coast Consumer Economy Investor I founded FWD.us in 2014 to support the Gang of Eight immigration expansion bill. Schumer helped pass the bill in the Senate, but it failed after Republican primary voters attacked the House Republican majority leader and pro-immigration Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.). Ta.
In 2020, Zuckerberg and his policy adviser David Plouffe helped Biden defeat Trump. Since 2021, Mr. Mayorkas has imported nearly 9 million illegal immigrants to serve as consumers, renters, and workers in the U.S. consumer economy.
Economic and civil damage caused by Mr. Mayorkas' policies intentionally A report from Democratic polling firm Blueprint 2024 found that immigration policies led a large portion of undecided voters to support Trump in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign.
Plouffe justified Harris' loss because “the political atmosphere was pretty brutal.” PodSaveAmerica Podcast On Nov. 26, he did not acknowledge how his FWD.us policies soured the political atmosphere for Harris. “The political atmosphere, the desire for change…I think it was a really big challenge for us,” Plouffe mused.
On Nov. 5, these challenges cost Schumer a second time three senators and the majority gavel.
