If Chuck Schumer (Senate minority leader) is deposed in some fashion who is likely to replace him?

Politics & Elections
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Loads of people are getting very unhappy with Chuck Schumer with the big one being losing control of his caucus and letting eight dems defect and vote to end the shutdown.

I have no proof Schumer is in any immediate danger of losing his position as senate minority leader but his ability to keep the spot is diminishing. People are telling AOC she needs to challenge him for his senate seat. While I like her way more than him I think she probably needs to wait (although I would vote for her over him if that was my choice). I know that even if she did beat him for that seat that would not make her minority leader…she’d be many, many years from that, if ever.

Regardless whether he resigns or retires or gets ousted who in the senate is likely to replace him? I am unclear on how this works. Is it seniority only? Person who has been there the longest gets it? Or something else? (I do not know…kinda surprised I don’t.)

I doubt anything will come of it but here is one example of the cracks Schumer has made for himself:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was already seen as a strong contender to challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for his Senate seat before the government shutdown.

Calls for the progressive star to challenge the Senate Democratic leader have only grown louder since a group of Senate Democrats voted for a deal to reopen the government, triggering a fresh wave of anger at Schumer from members of his own party.

Many Democrats believe Ocasio-Cortez could easily take out Schumer in a 2028 primary given the rage in the party over the shutdown deal and the party’s congressional leadership in general, a scenario that a year ago seemed questionable.

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Historically, it would be another member of the party leadership in the Senate: Senate Democratic Caucus - Wikipedia

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Someone asked that very question of the Votemaster today. Here are their conjectures. #1 was Cory Booker.

“S.S. in West Hollywood, CA, asks: Assume Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) decides to support the push for younger leadership and steps aside before next year’s midterm election. Who do you think would be the person most likely to replace him? Who else do you think has the right skill set and should be in the conversation to be the next Democrat Senate leader?

(Z) answers: The obvious frontrunner, I would say, is Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). He’s young by Senate standards (56), he’s “diverse,” he’s already a member of leadership (formerly Chief Deputy Whip, now Strategic Communications Committee Chair) and he’s known as a “fighter” thanks to his sorta-filibuster speech.

Other contenders would be Raphael Warnock (D-GA; 56), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ; 45), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI; 49), Alex Padilla (D-CA; 52), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM; 53), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL; 57). I think age 60 is probably an upper limit, and I don’t think they will go with a white guy. John Fetterman (D-PA) might have been a possibility, white-guyness notwithstanding, at some point, but not anymore between his health and his repeated acts of rebellion.”

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Out of that batch Elizabeth Warren is the most appealing to me, but at age 76 that’s just replacing one gerontocracy with another. I’d kinda like to see our government start being run by people who don’t remember what life was like before television.