BuzzFeed - âIt was abundantly clear thatâs where she wanted to go. That talk has been considerably quieter.â Paul Morigi / Getty Images for FORTUNE WASHINGTON â Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, was never particularly shy about her ambitions. Friends describe the Florida congresswoman as openly talking just a year ago about one day being speaker and moving up the ranks in Democratic leadership. She regularly doled out checks to rank-and-file members from her PAC and made it obvious she was courting their support. "It was abundantly clear that's where she wanted to go," one Democratic member close to Wasserman Schultz said. "That talk has been considerably quieter." Her tenure as DNC chair has been marked by steady stream of viral gaffes or messaging missteps that have led her fellow Democrats to wonder if she'd be able to muster the support for a jump into the Democratic leadership. While most of her colleagues (most
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