The South Carolina Democrat announced that he'll file the paperwork for another term as other longtime Democratic leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, plan to retire.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    661·
    6 months ago

    Clyburn, 85, has said in the past that he wants to help Democrats take back control of the House in November and elect the nation’s first Black speaker, one of his protégés, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

    Neoliberals won’t leave office, then vote them out in the primaries.

    But right now no one is running against this dinosaur

    • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      Even if he had a primary challenger Democrats would elect him over a new face, even if they were more progressive, like they did with Cuellar in Texas