A coalition of progressive organizations launched a campaign on Tuesday inWashington to pressure Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) into resigning from his leadership position.

RootsAction, World BEYOND War, Just Foreign Policy, Veterans For Peace, and Peace Action revealed they are circling a mobile electric billboard around the Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday to intensify scrutiny of Schumer. They expressed outrage that the Senate minority leader has not fully embraced certain progressive views, including denouncing Israel, signaling the growing backlash Schumer faces from anti-establishment factions in his party.

The electronic billboard reads: “Chuck Schumer has failed to provide real leadership against a war-crazed Trump administration” and “Chuck Schumer: Step Aside as Minority Leader.”

“Senator Schumer has consistently shown that he is out of step with the wants and needs of the Democratic base,” RootsAction political director Sam Rosenthal, who has helped lead other anti-Schumer campaigns, said in a statement.

“Worse than that, he has actively impeded progress on some of the most pressing issues — ending arms sales to Israel, defunding our forever wars, and implementing progressive economic policies that benefit the working class,” he continued. “The party simply cannot move forward with him at the head of the Senate caucus and he needs to step away from leadership for the benefit of the party’s future.”

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