MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on Tuesday called on former President Barack Obama’s camp to help the Democratic Party carve a path forward by turning their attention to the “next generation” of voters.
Capehart, in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” reflected on the earlier era of the Clinton family “running” everything and calls for “new blood” in the party — only for the same cycle of criticism to repeat with Obama.
“Now people are starting to complain, ‘Oh my God, the Obama people, they’re running everything.’ Some of the criticism, I think, is valid,” he said.
“Sometimes you get a sense that they think they know everything, they run the world and, in some cases, you can understand it because, well, they did win two presidential elections.”
He continued, “But at a certain point, that class of folks has to start listening to the next generation coming up because they have ideas, they have ways of reaching out to the voters, to men, to the Obama coalition that they just don’t have — they don’t have the feel for it because they’re not from that generation.”
