Brooklyn’s own Chuck Schumer will remain Senate majority leader after Democrats were projected to retain control of the upper chamber of Congress Saturday evening.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s victory in Nevada gave Democrats the 50 seats they needed to keep the Senate — repelling Republican efforts to retake the chamber and making it harder for them to thwart President Joe Biden’s agenda.
Vice President Kamala Harris breaks the 50-50 Senate tie, allowing Democrats to maintain control of the Senate regardless of the outcome of the Georgia runoff between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. But a Warnock victory would give Democrats a 51-seat majority — a one-seat pickup in what was initially projected to be a tough midterm election cycle.
