article_snippet: Harry's Reid's perfunctory announcement on Friday that Harry's Reid won't seek re-election next year -- leaving a vacancy for leadership of the Senate Democrats -- was followed, hours later, by a matter-of-fact statement in an interview with The Washington Post: "I think Chuck Schumer should be able to succeed me.
article_snippet: That would usher in a whirlwind of activity on Capitol Hill in the next year as New York's senior senator prepares to seize the reins of power -- and retool the party as a center-left powerhouse that can win and hold a majority in 2016 and beyond.
article_snippet: Left-leaning activists have begun scrambling to block Chuck Schumer rise.
article_snippet: The progressive organization Democracy for America is calling for Sen. Elizabeth Warren to seek the leadership post, and the left-leaning Daily Kos website is circulating a poll seeking other challengers and denouncing Chuck Schumer as too close to the "Wall Street wing" of the Democratic Party.
article_snippet: With more than a year to go before Senate Democrats will choose a new leader, anything can happen.
article_snippet: Those who wonder what a Schumer Senate leadership would look like should take a look as Democrats prepare for what could well be the start of the Chuck Schumer era on Capitol Hill.
highlights_snippet: Harry Reid wants Chuck Schumer to succeed Chuck Schumer as Senate minority leader .
  
highlights_snippet: But some on left want to block Chuck Schumer's rise to leadership post .
  