Photo: Kent Nishimura for New York Magazine In mid-December, Andy Kim walked out of a lunch meeting with his fellow Democrats in the Capitol and straight up to a bank of cameras. The little-known representative from South Jersey had been sworn in to the U.S. Senate the night before and was now standing next to Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff , who each took their turn at the mics to talk about the difficult work ahead. The questions came fast and thick: How would Schumer work with a resurgent GOP?