As the first Jewish Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer might return to his scrappy roots
During Sen. Chuck Schumer’s first Senate run for a New York seat in 1998, in a private meeting with Jewish supporters, Republican Sen. Al D’Amato called his upstart competitor a “putzhead,” literally meaning “penis-head.” Schumer has come a long way. Now, after victories for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in competitive Senate runoffs in Georgia,…