United States Senator Chuck Schumer secured on Thursday another two-year term as the US Senate majority leader.
The lawmaker from New York ran unopposed, according to The Associated Press, and described the vote as a "great unified meeting" among the Democrats of the upper chamber of US Congress. He added that they have set "strong aspirations" to "accomplish as much in the next two years" as they had done in the previous Congress.
Despite facing weak odds to hold onto the slimmest possible majority they had had ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats not only managed to fight off all Republican challengers in reelection races, which the Senate hadn't seen in nearly a century, but they even flipped one seat in Pennsylvania.
