Tom Perez: Obama Didn’t Pay Enough Attention to Maintaining and Building the Party

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MITCHELL: "Was President Obama -- did President Obama pay enough attention to party maintenance, party building?"
PEREZ: "Well I think with hindsight the answer to that is no. We had -- we -- we have a party — the OFA helped elect the president in -- in 2008 and 2012, but what ended up happening during that --"
MITCHELL: "That was his campaign --" [crosstalk]
PEREZ: "-- administration was that the 50-state strategy that Howard Dean had put in place began to atrophy. And so, we have too many parties today that are struggling. And -- and you know what though? This is all fixable."