Leading Democrat: Benghazi is the GOP's new Obamacare
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida聽has chaired the Democratic National Committee since April 2011. She was the guest at the May 7 Monitor Breakfast.聽
Recent bad poll numbers for her party:
鈥淚 don鈥檛 discount the mood.... I just think likely this far out ... it is not necessarily a really accurate reflection of what the outcome ... especially in a midterm, will look like.鈥�
The tea party鈥檚 impact on GOP congressional primaries:
鈥淭he tea party has won the civil war that has been raging inside the Republican Party. In races like the North Carolina [Republican senatorial] primary [May 6], [winner] Thom Tillis is no longer ... an establishment candidate. He has been dramatically pulled to the right.鈥�
If Hillary Rodham Clinton does not run for president, how long it could take for a woman to be elected:
鈥淚f she doesn鈥檛 run, I think we are within just a couple of cycles for a woman to be elected president.鈥�
House GOP leaders forming a select committee on Americans' deaths in Benghazi, Libya:
鈥淚t is nothing more than a political ploy, because continuing to focus obsessively on repealing the Affordable Care Act has lost its luster.鈥�
On Hispanic voters and immigration reform:聽
鈥淚t is not the most important issue, but you can鈥檛 be wrong as a candidate on that issue.... It is what drives a Hispanic voter away from [Republicans] and towards our party.鈥澛�
