DNC Chair Refuses to Say if She Thinks O’Malley Has a Chance of Winning

BLITZER: “Congresswoman, I should say, thanks very much for joining us. Are you surprised how close the race is between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire?
SCHULTZ: “No, actually Wolf. I am not surprised at all that this is a competitive race. It one that I have  expected. We have  three very strong candidates all of whom have been working very hard to build a base of support in the early primary states. And particularly Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have been able to be successful in building the large grass roots network that support them. And that is going to be boding well for us when we have an eventual Democratic nominee, because we can take them to the built-out grass roots operation, and unite them behind the eventual Democratic nominee.”
BLITZER: “And when you say three strong candidates you are referring to the former governor Martin O’Malley, but in our [indecipherable] poll which we have just shown, he is only 4 percent. Both  Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are 45 percent. So you think that he has some sort of chance?”
SCHULTZ: “Well, you know, I think that Martin O’Malley has been working hard in Iowa, and he has a good message. The clear difference last night for me and for so many Americans watching that the debate is what a difference a Democrat makes. I mean, we had three candidates on that stage that all talked about the issues that are important to Americans, and about how to move us forward and build on President Obama’s legacy of success, on the job creation that we have successfully had; 70 straight months of  job growth in the private sector, on  the access to health care with 19 million Americans who didn’t have health care before and now do. So  the finer-point arguments that they had between one another is really the difference of approach of achieving the same goals as opposed to the food fight, and really the insult hurling that we watched in North Charleston on Thursday night at the Republican debate.”