The Democratic leader still faces skeptics in his ranks and hostility from some activists, but aides say he has enough commitments of support to be elected majority leader.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and his political team engaged in a $550 million push to put more Senate seats in play and increase their chances of regaining the majority.
They won Senate races in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, with a Mississippi race still too close to call. Their wins lifted down-ballot candidates too.
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