"I don't think people in the beltway are realizing just how toxic the Democratic Party brand is in so many parts of the country". "I'm a master legislator".
"The Democratic Party needs new leadership now. My leadership is recognized by many around the country".
"I think people need to stop talking about every single election as a referendum against Trump. every individual election has to be about the individual candidates in that geographical area", said Schiavoni.
Others dismissed the idea that Pelosi really played much of a role in the outcome in Georgia, where Democrat Jon Ossoff lost to Republican Karen Handel by about 5 percentage points.
Democrats lost another race in SC that same night, and that followed previous disappointments in Montana and Kansas.
The message after four races according to the GOP: Americans aren't as sick of the chaos in Washington as the media says. They must pick up 24 seats to do so.
The loss also renewed the focus on Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who was demonized by the GOP side in the Georgia race.
She said she feels "very confident" in the support she has from her caucus, but claimed ownership over the "timing" for her role as minority leader. I know it's good to get outside the Beltway from time to time, but my timing might have been a little better.
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Trump also said he wants Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to stay, referring to him as "Cryin' Chuck". 'And I hope that the Democrats keep her right where she is for a long, long time. The bad news is that there aren't that many other Republican-held districts with a lot of highly educated voters.
In races without the national focus and Fort Knox-level spending, energized anti-Trump voters appeared to turn out at far higher rates than dispirited Republicans.
Those messages weren't aimed at Georgia voters; they were aimed at funders, like the supposed pragmatists at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who stiffed James Thompson in Kansas and spent a paltry $340,000 on Rob Quist's race in Montana, but lavished millions on Ossoff's equally doomed campaign. Pelosi has helped engineer budget deals, an overhaul of the nation's health care law and an economic stimulus during her years as a leader.
"The fact that we have spent so much time talking about Russian Federation has been a distraction from what should be the clear contrast between Democrats and the Trump agenda, which is on economics", Murphy said on "Morning Joe" recently. "But I think I'm worth the trouble, quite frankly".
Rep. Tim Ryan, who unsuccessfully challenged Pelosi for minority leader a year ago, told Business Insider he did not know how Democrats could take the House in 2018 if the GOP was successfully able to convince independents and Republicans that a vote for a Democratic candidate is essentially a vote for Pelosi's leadership. A Handel ad portrayed Ossoff - who ran on a decidedly moderate message - as a San Francisco-style liberal aligned with "Nancy Pelosi and outsiders who just don't share our priorities". But it's the kind of district Democrats need to win to take back the House. They have now three special elections in a row to fill seats vacated by President Trump's Cabinet members.
But Pelosi continues to command great loyalty from many in the House, and she insisted her position was not in jeopardy.
"I think it will be very hard", he said. "We don't agonize. We organize". "And you can't get away from the fact that in Georgia this was seen as a test of whether the resistance by Democrats was going to overpower the Republicans or whether the Trump vote would hold".
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