Democrats are quite optimistic about the upcoming November election, when they hope to regain the majority of seats in the House of Representatives, but should that not happen, a Democratic leader said, a new leadership will most likely be needed.
Representative Jim Clyburn noted that in such a case the party’s leadership needs to step aside, making room for new faces.
“If we’re still in the minority” after Election Day, “all of us have got to go,” Clyburn said Friday after his annual “Jim Clyburn’s World Famous Fish Fry” in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. He appeared alongside fellow Democratic Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio, who gave a keynote address at the Blue Palmetto Dinner, a fundraiser for the South Carolina Democratic Party, CNN writes.
Ryan, who is considered an up-and-coming leader in the Democratic party, has not denied rumors that he may run for president in 2020. Ryan is also known for challenging current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her job in November 2016 and saying that the entire leadership team, Clyburn included, should step aside.
He also said last year that Pelosi was more toxic than President Donald Trump.
“The honest answer is in some areas of the country — yes, she is,” Ryan told CNN’s Don Lemon. “I think that in certain areas, like in some of these special election districts, it doesn’t benefit our candidates to be tied to her.”
Clyburn described his younger colleague Ryan as a “good friend” with whom he often spends time outside of the Capitol, insisting there was no bad blood between them.
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