Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said Wednesday that the Democratic Party has no national leader.
“I don’t know if we really have one, to be honest with you,” Ryan said on C-SPAN after being asked who is leading the Democrats.
He said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California are clearly leading Democrats in Congress, but he said there is no overall leader.
“I guess it’s unknown,” he said.
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Ryan argued that it’s not unusual to have a leaderless party. “For the longest time, Republicans really didn’t have a real leader, and that gets galvanized through presidential elections, and leaders emerge,” he said.
“But right now I don’t think, you know, the average person would really identify anybody,” he said when it comes to the Democrats.
“I would say right now there’s not any major leader of the party,” Ryan said.
Ryan ran against Pelosi to lead Democrats in the House, but said he has no interest in trying to take on a House leadership position again.
