Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday was caught on a hot mic weighing Democrats’ chances of winning in battleground states that could determine control of the chamber, saying Georgia was “going downhill.”
Schumer apparently was unaware he was being recorded as he greeted President Joe Biden on the airport tarmac in Syracuse, New York, where the president campaigned for Gov. Kathy Hochul (D).
“The state where we’re going downhill is Georgia,” Schumer said, referring to the tightening race between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and scandal-plagued Republican Herschel Walker.
In response, Biden noted that former President Barack Obama is due to campaign in Georgia with Warnock and Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Friday to help energize Democrats.
Despite the challenges, Schumer told the president “our early turnout in Georgia is huge, huge.”
Warnock maintains a consistent yet narrowing lead in the race, according to polling…
