Schumer is doing damage control. It isn’t working.

In recent days, the Senate minority leader and his aides have been talking privately with liberal groups in an apparent effort to ease tensions after sparking a civil war in the Democratic Party over a stopgap funding bill.

The minority leader is in a perilous position in the party, drawing furious backlash from Democrats after his vote last week. While maneuvering privately to repair relationships, he postponed scheduled book tour events this week, with a spokesperson citing ‘security concerns.’ The events would have taken him to heavily Democratic cities, including Baltimore and Washington, and activists had made plans to protest them.