“I said to him, ‘I don’t need you to like me,’” Mr. Schumer said in an interview as he recounted the conversation. “We have been relentless about that in place after place after place, and it has worked,” Mr. Schumer said. Mr. Schumer secured the candidacy of Janet Mills, a two-term governor who would traditionally be considered a sterling recruit. Mr. Platner’s rise gave momentum to criticism that Mr. Schumer was increasingly out of step with the new progressive tide. The post A Spurned Schumer Reaches Out to the Left appeared first on New York Times.