DCCC chief to House Dems: It’s okay to run against Obama

“We’re proud of the fact that we have an ideologically diverse caucus. We have a whole range of different political viewers. What they’re talking about is their independence on certain issues,” Van Hollen, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told CNN’s Candy Crowley on State of The Union.

“Issues where they stood with the speaker and the president, and the issues where they opposed the speaker and the president. That’s their job,” Van Hollen, of Maryland, continued.