{"id":1752969,"date":"2022-11-27T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1752969"},"modified":"2022-11-27T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:18:02","slug":"democrat-rep-jim-clyburn-on-why-its-necessary-for-him-to-stay-in-power-its-biblical-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-rep-jim-clyburn-on-why-its-necessary-for-him-to-stay-in-power-its-biblical-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn On Why It\u2019s \u2018Necessary\u2019 For Him To \u2018Stay In Power\u2019: \u2018It\u2019s Biblical With Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-rep-jim-clyburn-on-why-its-necessary-for-him-to-stay-in-power-its-biblical-with-me%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1752969&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday that it was \u201cnecessary\u201d for him to \u201cstay in power\u201d because it was \u201cBiblical\u201d for him.<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn, 82, made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News\u2019 Margaret Brennan on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats are holding leadership elections in the coming week, you\u2019re already in leadership, I know you will be standing for election to a different position,\u201d Brennan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if it is time for a new generation as Speaker Pelosi had said, Why do you think it\u2019s necessary for you to stay in power?\u201d she asked. \u201cDo you think the next generation needs you to guide them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019ve always said there is a healthy respect, it\u2019s Biblical with me,\u201d Clyburn responded. \u201cWe need to have a healthy blend of strength and knowledge and look at our leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe South is left out of it and what I\u2019m doing is trying to make sure that we do not tilt too far to the east or too far to the west,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut maintain what we have here. There\u2019s no other southerner among the leadership ranks and we need the south. We need these historically black colleges and universities. If it weren\u2019t for Georgia, where would the Senate be today? And the last time I checked, Georgia is south of South Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If it is time for a new generation [in House Democrat leadership]\u2026why do you think it\u2019s necessary for you to stay in power?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn: &#8220;It\u2019s biblical with me. We need to have a healthy blend of strength and knowledge.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SREHI8xM5Y\">pic.twitter.com\/SREHI8xM5Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1596896628614504449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>MARGARET BRENNAN: Democrats are holding leadership elections in the coming week, you\u2019re already in leadership, I know you will be standing for election to a different position. But if it is time for a new generation as Speaker Pelosi had said, Why do you think it\u2019s necessary for you to stay in power? Do you think the next generation needs you to guide them?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. CLYBURN: Well, I\u2019ve always said there is a healthy respect, it\u2019s Biblical with me. We need to have a healthy blend of strength and knowledge and look at our leadership. The South is left out of it and what I\u2019m doing is trying to make sure that we do not tilt too far to the east or too far to the west. But maintain what we have here. There\u2019s no other southerner among the leadership ranks and we need the south. We need these historically black colleges and universities. If it weren\u2019t for Georgia, where would the Senate be today? And the last time I checked, Georgia is south of South Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-rep-james-clyburn-if-you-dont-vote-against-election-deniers-youre-a-nazi\">Democrat Rep. James Clyburn: If You Don\u2019t Vote Against \u2018Election Deniers\u2019 You\u2019re A Nazi<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday that it was \u201cnecessary\u201d for him to \u201cstay in power\u201d because it was \u201cBiblical\u201d for him. Clyburn, 82, made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News\u2019 Margaret Brennan on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cDemocrats are holding leadership elections in the coming week, you\u2019re already in leadership, I know &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1752972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}