Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan is vowing to keep Democrats on a strict economic message and have a “street fight” with President-elect Donald Trump if necessary should he knock off Nancy Pelosi to be House minority leader next year.
“When we don’t talk about elections, we lose elections,” the seven-term congressman told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.
Ryan announced a challenge to Pelosi on Thursday and argued on Sunday that the party got away from a national economic message and instead focused on issues such as the Zika virus that only played in specific regions.
Even issues like gun violence in cities, Ryan said, come down to economic anxieties...
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