Barbara Boxer: “I think that combination ensures the competitiveness, and that is critical.”

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.

It is absolutely false to say that FEMA is getting in the way.

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.