House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017. The $25 million raised was not enough to reverse the luck of the Democrats, who suffered defeat in districts within Kansas, Montana and SC. "The House remains in play now".
Asked if that meant Pelosi should go, Moulton - who backed Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan's challenge to Pelosi's leadership post past year - said: "I think that's a question for the caucus to decide".
The Massachusetts Democrat, speaking on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" Wednesday afternoon, made his comments following his party's failure to win a closely watched special election in Georgia.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at top Democrats on Twitter.
In another tweet, Trump also congratulated Republican Ralph Norman, who won a special congressional election in SC.
"We don't agonize, we organize", she said of her party. The results suggest that Democrats will need more than low approval ratings for the president if they hope to achieve their goal of taking control of the House next year. So it's time for change. I think, with a lot of local work, we can take back the House in 2018.
When the astonishingly awful health plan is finally made public and people watch their parents, children, siblings and friends be denied health care, and when they experience the full horror of President Trump's foreign policy, Democrats will win in district after district, if they do the groundwork that is always necessary to win elections. Democrats need to net 24 seats to win back the House.
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They can't ignore how very unpopular their leadership is with many voters. 'I don't think it's fair, ' Ryan told Don Lemon. Democrats have also criticised Republicans for devising their plan behind closed doors and without congressional scrutiny.
"I don't know if there is a solution in the short term", Ryan said.
But Pelosi's not going anywhere. Even in the minority, the votes she commands are often needed to pass spending bills or other must-pass legislation that House conservatives disdain, and GOP speakers have had to come to her repeatedly hat in hand.
In a particularly nefarious ad, a PAC supporting Handel claimed that Ossoff would produce more of the same as Pelosi, before implying that both supported the violence carried out at last week's Congressional baseball practice.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who also attended the meeting, said, "in every corner of our caucus, we're concerned". It also did not help that the Democratic candidate ran an overly careful campaign and did not actually live in the district.
The reality is that Republicans have represented the Georgia 6th since 1979, and Handel replaces Tom Price who became the Health and Human Services secretary.
Trump's tweets, old and new, left many perplexed about whether there was motive or strategy behind the whole affair.
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