it may be a good 2018 strategy to take to the house, but will it take the white house if you can t bring the party back together, including those of us that feel that blacks are not even being discussed. there are no race issues front and center yet and in the language being used in 2018 or 2020. look, first of all, on the african-american situation we have to do better. we have to do better. i think one of the things about having a president, an african-american president is that people white folks in our party are going to do better we can t take the african-american voters for granted anymore. we have to do better. as far as the bernie folks go, 80% of bernie voters voted for hillary clinton. this in some ways is a manufactured crisis by a few people who are quoteable in the
think trump is trying to figure out how to fire mueller. i think the republicans have completely surrendered to trump and given up any shred of patriotism and we re in a lot of trouble in this country. it is the first time i have really felt that way. chairman steele, many of us agree with what chairman dean just said about firing mueller. what would be the fallout to the republican party in the midterm elections if this president found some kind of way to get rid of the special counsel mueller? i mean how does the party and the congressional and senate candidates, how do they fare if he does that? i think it is devastating. there is no appetite, despite what people may say or think on capitol hill for the president to fire mueller. there s a lot of back channel conversation, particular giving the recent machinations by the administration, to try to get the president to understand that firing robert mueller is a
press. the democratic party is working through something called the unity commission. it is pretty darn good. it was just abopted and they have one more problems in the did, nc or the dnl party, that did put their hand on the scale which was the wrong thing to do in the 2016 election. there will be a lot of press of bernie versus hillary people. i think it is played by certain people that like to get their names in the paper. got to go, howard. okay. thank you very much though. that really did answer my question, especially on the african-american issue. and i didn t want to bring up race with you, mr. chairman, michael steele, since you were insulted in a racial manner by your party. we won t discuss how racist that was. i would never bring it up. no. a reminder, my organization, national action network is supporting the march for our lives rally, calling for gun
so we will have a lot a wide ideological band width in the house democratic party. i think it is a good thing. that reflect this generation. that reflect that is power all of this, which is not my generation. it is the so-called millennials, which i call the first gloebbal and it is these kids, these high school kids. that s where they are. their band width is more left maybe, but we need working class and, you know, lunch pail people too. that s the way the democratic party succeeded and that s how we re going to succeed again. when we get there, we have to get over the nonsense that s going on. though mostly it is not in the party but the dnc in relitigating 2016. my message for those who want to
that they and their local constituency may agree to, or is it that we re going to have some national candidate of thread to all of these campaigns because the issue that the reason that i raise the issue is the challenge is that in 2020 you have to have a national candidate that s going to have to put all of this together, and how do you do that if you have all of these separate races, separate policies. well, first of all we don t have to worry about 2020 if we can t take back the house. the formula for taking back the house, the successful one we used in 2006 was to run everywhere and have candidates chosen locally, not by people from washington. and so that s what you re seeing. so we re going to have a diverse party. i think i m not sure what is going to happen but whatever it is is not going to be good for the republicans and i think we may get a wave of election like 1974 after watergate, at least in the house.