Chuck Schumer Reelected to U.S. Senate

By Shaye Weaver, NEW YORK CITY — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer will return to Washington. Schumer, a Democrat from Brooklyn, beat Republican Wendy Long, Libertarian Alex Merced, and Green Party candidate Robin Laverne Wilson, NY1 reported. CLICK HERE FOR LIVE ELECTION RESULTS This will be his fourth term. Representing New York in the U.S. Senate since 1998, Schumer will likely take the helm as the Senate Democratic leader once Harry Reid retires at the end of this year, reports say. In July, Schumer took aim at the dangerous drug known as K2, or synthetic marijuana, which caused a mass overdose in Bedford-Stuyvesant over the summer. He co-sponsored a bill that would ban 22 chemicals used to make the drug. dnainfo.com/new-york.