Schumer: "We Dems have the winds in our sails"

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) projected optimism heading into the November midterms as he held a press conference on what is expected to be the Senate's final day of votes before the elections. "We Dems have the winds in our sails heading into October and the final stretch," he said Wednesday. The Democratic leader said his caucus has worked together to "block some of the worst Trump's GOP had to throw at the American people." "But there are certain things that you cannot do without the majority," he said. "If you want to lower costs, end the war, put real checks on this administration, control of the Senate greatly matters." Sen. Schumer sidestepped a question about how many seats he thought Democrats could pick up in November, acknowledging it's a "close election." "We do not want to be overconfident," he said. "But what we're seeing in state after state after state is that people are sick of Trump. They're sick of the Republican Senate going along with them.