In this power vacuum, as Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Harry Reid and other Democrats in Congress speak up and take the lead, and he is sort of is standing away from it, there's going to be a sense that maybe we elected a new -- the Democrats to lead the country, not Barack Obama.
Gergen warns that if Obama does not assert his leadership, it may undermine his authority.
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