White House: Obama won’t push Wasserman Schultz out

Published June 9, 2016 7:29pm ET



White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Obama has no intention of trying to oust Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the chair of Democratic Party in the wake of his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president.

Within an hour of Obama publicly backing Clinton to succeed him, Earnest shot down any notion that Wasserman Schultz should leave the top job at the party’s campaign arm, in the wake of complaints from Bernie Sanders and his supporters that she is biased toward Clinton.

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