With the post-midterm lame duck congressional session ongoing, there is not much in the way of news regarding bill passage. The NBC Nightly News sought to remediate this by reporting on the Republican leadership elections. In so doing, they made a major omission of the war brewing on the other side of the aisle.
Watch the brief on Republican leadership elections in its entirety, as aired on Tuesday, November 10th, 2026. And then watch for what gets left out.
WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews tiny brief on GOP congressional leadership elections completely omits Dem disarray (especially on the Senate side) pic.twitter.com/dZLpbxfLyd
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TOM LLAMAS: And there's another major development there in Washington tonight, a shakeup in Republican leadership. Ryan Nobles joins us now live. Ryan, this all comes following that GOP wipeout in the midterms.
RYAN NOBLES: Yeah that's right, Tom. Republicans are looking to regroup with Democrats set to take control. In the House, Republicans picked the former Freedom Caucus chair Jim Jordan as their new leader. On the Senate side, the top Republican, John Thune, kept his job. All of this as two key races have not been called. Today was the deadline in Mississippi for absentee and mail in ballots to be received. The Democrat, Scott Colom, has a narrow lead. And in Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola has a narrow lead over the Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. Peltola’s campaign, of course, facing a criminal investigation that they recruited another Dan Sullivan to run in this race. Tom.
LLAMAS: Ryan Nobles for us. Ryan, thank you.
The focus here is solely on the “Republican shakeup” after the “GOP wipeout.” The Elitist Media aren’t really talking about it on the TV side, but there is significant grumbling on the Democrat side of the aisle, especially in the Senate. Per The Hill:
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said they would not back Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) as leader of the incoming Democratic majority in the Senate, underscoring tensions in the caucus over who should lead the party after its stunning midterm victories.
Progressive and centrist Senate Democrats have come out in opposition to Schumer, who has been defended after his party won seven seats, including in Texas, South Carolina and Kansas, in the midterms. That number could grow, too, with Democratic candidates ahead in Alaska and Mississippi.
Sanders, a former presidential candidate and leader of progressives in the Senate, said Schumer had not been doing enough to end income and wealth inequality in explaining his opposition.
There continues to be no reporting in the Elitist Media Evening News on the ongoing Senate Democrat revolt against Chuck Schumer. Elissa “Don’t Give Up the Ship” Slotkin and Bernie Sanders are but the latest to come out against Schumer, in addition to multiple incoming senators, all as Chris van Hollen waits in the wings.
But you don’t see any “Democrats in Disarray” headlines. Focus is solely on the shellacked GOP. Just because the media elites don’t want to report something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Such is the case with this Senate Democrat mutiny. In the meantime, we are reminded that if it weren’t for double standards there would be none at all.
