Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Tom Perez on Sunday he’s “absolutely not” considering resigning amid harsh criticism over the Iowa caucus glitches and delays.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Perez batted back outrage over the caucus mess.
“The last three years, my job was to rebuild our infrastructure, to win elections. When you do that, sometimes you have to make tough decisions,” he said. “[W]e have been winning. This is what it's about.
“I think it's really important for people to take a broader step back right now,” he said, adding: “We're barely out of the starting gate. The angst is elevated because we have the most dangerous president in the history of America. We are in better position to hand our nominee an infrastructure for success than ever before. “
Perez also suggested that Iowa could lose its first-in-the-nation primary voting status, though he insisted he trusts the ultimate results of the process.
“That's the conversation that will absolutely happen after this election cycle,” he said. “And after the last election cycle we had a conversation about two really important things: super delegate reform and the primary caucus issue .”
“I think what we learned from all of the mistakes that were made, it's undeniably unacceptable,” he said of the Iowa caucus. “I'm frustrated. I'm mad as hell and everybody is. I think what we're going to do at the end of this cycle is have a further conversation about whether or not state parties should be running elections.”