Talk Elections

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Tim Ryan

As minority leader? Hopefully Paul Ryan. :P

As Democratic leader? I think Tim Ryan would be the best choice. I don't know if House Democrats would agree.

Everyone but this coward of Tim Ryan

Speaker-again Pelosi coming January 3, 2019, but if I had to chose one it would be Tim Ryan.

Joe Crowley (if/when Steny/Clyburn retire before/alongside Pelosi)

I like Pelosi because she's effective and good at her job. What exactly makes Tim Ryan so qualified for the job?

Chris Van Hollen or Xavier Becerra. Just kidding. Crowley seems like the most likely successor given his leadership position and age. Ben Ray Lujan is also well-positioned.

I mostly like the geographical location of his district--it's harder to associate that area with "liberal elitists" than basically any other Democratic district.

I like Crowley too though.

John Lewis.

Identity politics.

I'd be fine with Ryan, but I wish better names would arise.

Pelosi 4 life!

DWS

anyone like the idea of Richard Neal?

Richard Neal is a good guy. I could certainly see him being a good speaker/minority leader.

He's a white man from a Trump state that would supposedly be hard to attack.

The problem with Ryan is that he could easily be drawn out of a seat in the next redistricting if that area trends any further right.  I think Joaquin Castro would be just about their best possible option for the next Dem Leader.  In the long run, I think Seth Moulton and Kyrsten Sinema would both make great speakers.

In terms of the national optics, it would behoove them not to pick someone from CA, NY, or Chicago.

...80% chin?

Mass seems really underrepresented at the leadership level

He's willing to do it

stephen jaffe :P

Speaker: Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI)
Majority Leader: Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA)
Majority Whip: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
Caucus Chair: Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA)

I think that a combination of the following Democrats would also make good additions to the leadership team:

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA)
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH)
Rep. Reuben Kihuen (D-NV)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL)
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL)
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA)

I really don't find Crowley or Hoyer appealing and Clyburn is too old...

Crowley would be solid, though I prefer Tim Ryan for obvious geographic reasons.

Beatty does not belong in House leadership, and Moulton makes me want to puke.

Ben Ray Lujan, Linda Sanchez, Joe Crowley, and Cheri Bustos all come to mind.

Lujan or Ryan.

I don't think Nancy Pelosi's successor as Leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S House has been elected yet.  Maybe in another 20-30 years.

Cheri Bustos is likely to run statewide in Illinois at some point...

Though leader of the DCCC, I haven't heard all that much about Ben Ray Lujan... we had disappointing cycles in 2014 and 2016, so not sure why he has been kept on, honestly. Plus I thought he was just kind of a legacy back-bencher, his Dad being the boss of NM politics...

Somebody from the midwest. Preferably someone outside the mainstream.

Hopefully someone good.
Realistically, some establishment neoliberal hawk like Steny Hoyer.

I think Mark Pocan would square the circle. Midwestern. Down-to-earth. Gay. I think he could appeal to the middle and also rake in $$ from the coasts...

Bustos has passed up on a Senatorial and gubernatorial run. Unless she gets Durbin's seat in 2020, I would bet she wants to go up in the leadership in the House.

Here's the sad thing - I can't think of one person in the house who would be good for that role. I imagined Chris Van Hollen would take it, and now he's a Senator. I then imagined Xavier Beccerra, and now he's Cali Attorney General. God damn it CAN NOT be Steny Hoyer, so who?

lol Clyburn. I genuinely do not think Tim Ryan is up to the job. Until his recent endorsement of Fake Democrats in New York, I kind of liked the prospect of Speaker Ellison. Crowley is awful, Richard Neal strikes me as a random liberal white dude.

Dark horse prospect - I like John Yarmuth of Kentucky. He's strong on a lot of issues that grassroots progressives care about, he's from a state where there are people that Democrats just need to understand better, seems like a hard worker. I'm not sure of how much of a speaker he could be, but I think he'd be a good face to put on the national stage.

My list now:

1. John Yarmuth
2. Keith Ellison
3. Tim Ryan

Anyone else is kind of disappointing even CONSIDERING that Nancy Pelosi sounds worse and worse every day.

Roughly geographically, it's time for a Democratic leader from either the Northeast or the South-

Pelosi (West)
Gephardt (Midwest)
Foley (West)
Wright (South)
O'Neill (Northeast)
Albert (South)
McCormack (Northeast)
Rayburn (South)

ahhh yeah the tars are aligning for Yarmuth.

As the announced alternative, I prefer Tim Ryan to Pelosi, but would be open to other options. If there's anyone from between the Appalachians and the Rockies (inclusive) with strong labor ties and a good position on global warming, I think they deserve a hearing.

It's too bad Perlmutter is running for governor.

If you want someone with strong labor ties, Donald Norcross was "president of the Southern New Jersey AFL-CIO Central Labor Council for 16 years," according to Wikipedia.

What about (unfortunately my rep) Jim Cooper?  He still has that "blue dog" appeal despite being reliably liberal on most issues.  A drawback is that the Democratic Party would need to come up with a secession plan or scheme to move him to Cohen's seat in Memphis, since he is quite likely to be out of a seat in Nashville following 2020 redistricting since Nashville is D+7, but is surrounded entirely by TN-4, TN-6, and TN-7, which are all R+20 or so.  There's no reason to expect anything other than four ~R+15 districts that contain pieces of Nashville.

Show me a map that would produce an 8-1 R delegation in Tennessee.

I can't get the redistricting thing to work on my computer for some reason, but it's really simple and would have been done in 2010 if the state legislature realized that we were permanently an ultra-red state on the state level.  Essentially, you slice Nashville up like a pizza between TN-4 (DesJarlais), TN-5 (Cooper), TN-6 (Black), and TN-7 (Blackburn).  Their PVIs are R+20, D+7, R+24, and R+20.  That means that you can draw four ~R+15 districts (57/4=14.25).  All four would be completely Safe R.

As leader? Probably Ryan or Hoyer, hopefully Seth Moulton or Adam Smith

In her district? Maybe Mark Leno

Nancy Pelosi is on the path to become Speaker once again after next year's midterms. If she becomes Speaker once again and we defeat Donald Trump in 2020, I think she'll eventually resign on a high point, particularly if Democrats win the trifecta in 2020.

Right now, I have no doubt she is the best leader for the Democratic Party in the House. I don't think we can get anyone as progressive as her for leader for a long time. A lot of us on the left need to be realistic. We have a San Francisco liberal, once part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as the leader of our party in the House. What do you really think we're going to get if she stands down prematurely? Obviously, the answer is corporate Dem Steny Hoyer. Do you really think we're going to get another Bay Area liberal type as the next leader?

I actually don't like liberals all that much, and especially those from the Bay Area. Corporate types should be kept out too, but I don't like Pelosi for pretty straightforward reasons.

*bump*

Regardless of who you want for the job, who do you think is her most likely successor?

Hoyer?

Hopefully Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Maxine Waters, Keith Ellison, or that guy who thinks Guam will tip over if there are too many people

It can't be any worse than Denny Hastert.

Its premature to oust her in 2017, she will wait for the outcome of the House races in 2018, before deciding to retire for good.  But, Dems do have opportunities in PA, FL, Ca, NY and NY and VA where they are expected to do good on gubernatorial elections.

Best scenario would be her announcing now that she will retire at the beginning of the next Congress.

I presently live in CA12 she's not going anywhere, because Dems got plenty of ground, still in Latino friendly territory to make up to make her Speaker again in CA, NY, NJ, FL and TX.

She'll be minority leader until she dies.

The ramifications of GA 06, just says that there isn't a wave yet.  But, remember Dems are gonna sweep VA and NJ in the Fall and plenty of Govs in 2018 in districts where the swing districts are like VA 10, its not over, until Nov 2018.

Roll Call: Crowley/Sanchez/Jeffries/Lujan most likely. (http://www.rollcall.com/news/hawkings/nancy-pelosi-successors-democrats?utm_content=buffer5a8ba&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

I'd put my money on Crowley. Though I'm a big supporter of Ryan.

If you can find a way to oust The Wicked Witch of The West i'd say Tim Ryan would be a good pick for successor.

Tim Ryan or Raul Grijalva

Lujan would be excellent, and I don't just say that because of regional bias. The Democrats desperately need to shake the California/New York insider image.

The bad thing about all this is Steny Hoyer might sneak in. Pelosi for all her faults is better than Hoyer or Clyburn (way too moderate) who will have Black Caucus with him !

Hoyer and Clyburn "way too moderate"? Interesting. Few years ago i thought that "tea party" exist in Republican party only. Probably - i was wrong...

That would be called failing upwards for the DCCC chair to get promoted after blowing so much money on GA-06.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the DCCC.

Imagine the confusion with two Ryans leading in the House.

This just made me more supportive of Tim Ryan. A "[Democratic candidate] supports Ryan's agenda" ad would confuse many low-info voters.

Yeah but Ryan's agenda is so unpopular it might actually be an effective attack.

I think a black or Latino Minority Leader would be an interesting change of pace. But I also would like a non-"coastal" Minority Leader. So Lujan, I suppose.

3/4 isn't bad, and, in my pre-post draft, I had listed Jeffries.

As a guy from WI-02 who is glad that my guy is actually getting mentioned I second this for the reasons that you mentioned. Although he was just elected in 2012 so I'm wondering if experience could be an issue.

Hoyer is even older than Pelosi, and Clyburn is just a bit younger. We don't need these walking corpses running the party.

I'd like to see Tim Ryan or Cheri Bustos.

Bustos only gets in if Durbin pulls some strings.

I dont think pelosi is mentally stable. She refer to trump as president bush MORE THEN ONCE A NUMBER OF TIMES I MIGHT ADD.