Ex-DNC Chair: Keep Wasserman Schultz Off Convention Stage ‘For Her Own Good’

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Former Democratic National Committee chair Ed Rendell said Monday that if it were up to him, he would keep embattled DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the convention stage “for her own good.”

“It’s going to be messy when she gets up there” to gavel in the Philadelphia convention, Rendell, who led the DNC during the 2000 election, said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

He went on to say while he likes Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman is also “very stubborn” about wanting “to see this thing through.”

Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday that she would step down from her post after the convention ends.

While Rendell said he believes the DNC did have its thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, he said it didn’t make much difference.

“They’re pretty ineffectual. The DNC is by nature ineffectual in a primary. There’s not much they can do,” he said.

Rendell also said that as a non-practicing Jew, he was “highly offended” by the bombshell emails leaked online Friday by Wikileaks which showed top DNC strategists plotting a potential coordinated attack on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) faith.

“I can’t imagine how Bernie felt,” he said. “To question a guy’s faith is just the lowest thing in politics.”

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