Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

letter to the editor:

Dems need young face for party

After the midterm election defeat, the Democrats have a huge immediate problem facing the party. Who will be the face of the party? Nancy Pelosi-Harry Reid, both 75 now and older by 2016? Or younger, fresh, exciting faces? Democrats know the future of the party depends on millennial voters (18-34 years old) and minorities (the two groups not voting in the midterms needed to win). Does the Democratic Party really want old, white people in charge? No, definitely not!

They’ll be asked to do the right thing for the good of the party — announce they’ll retire at the end of their current terms, if not sooner, and designate their successors. And they both will. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, director of the Democratic National Committee, will go also, though not for the same reason. She’s gone because she’ll be the party’s scapegoat for the historic midterm gains by Republicans.

Those three will be thrown under bus. That’s the way politics “inside the Washington, D.C., beltway” rolls. No love lost for losers. You’re only as good as your last election. And if elections are the polls that really count — and we all know they are — Pelosi-Reid and Schultz, although only Pelosi was on the ballot and won, were the big losers.

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