Whispers: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Might Get Stabbed in the Back By Her Own Side Before the Convention
Watch this Game of Thrones scene (only if you’re caught or don’t care about spoilers!), and imagine that instead of saying “for the watch!”, everyone with a knife mutters “for the party!” before getting all stabby. And imagine that instead of that one character, the victim is Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And then imagine that the culprits surrounding her are the fellow centrists she used to call friends.
Once you’ve conjured up that fantasy, you’re getting close to the betrayal that might befall Wasserman Schultz before the Democratic convention this summer. (A purely metaphorical betrayal…I think.) Politico reports that there’s “chatter” about a so-called coup brewing against her, and the really surprising part is that it’s coming from Hillary Clinton backers. That seems strange, when you consider that Wasserman Schultz is despised by Bernie Sanders supporters precisely because she’s been functioning as Clinton’s henchwoman since the primary campaign began, but as it turns out, this hatred is exactly why her own people might be turning on her. This news was first reported by The Hill, and here’s what they had to say:
Democrats backing likely presidential nominee Hillary Clinton worry Wasserman Schultz has become too divisive a figure to unify the party in 2016, which they say is crucial to defeating presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in November.
Wasserman Schultz has had an increasingly acrimonious relationship with the party’s other presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters, who argue she has tilted the scales in Clinton’s favor.
“There have been a lot of meetings over the past 48 hours about what color plate do we deliver Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s head on,” said one pro-Clinton Democratic senator.