Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) challenged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the strategy of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) to get involved in Democratic Senate primaries.

SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (D-MD): There’s a concern among a number of us that the DSCC which is the political arm of the Senate Democrats should not be engaged in some of these Senate Democratic primaries. It’s fine, you know, to support a Sherrod Brown who was recruited into a race, but there are many active and open Senate Democratic primaries and it’s our view that for the most part these should play out without interference from the Senate Democratic leadership. And so, that was the basis of concern. We have a lot of good candidates out there and the DSCC has seemed to put their foot on the scale in favor of the more establishment candidates as opposed to some of these, you know, other candidates. So, that was the basis of the concern and this is why a group of us announced support for example for Peggy Flanagan who’s the lieutenant governor in Minnesota and decided to put our support behind her. We think she’s the sort of anti-business-as-usual candidate and we thought it was important to make a statement there.

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