Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who is challenging House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for her leadership position, said the Democrats may “cease being a national party” if they don’t fix their problem with working-class voters.

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“I’m pulling the fire alarm right now is what I’m doing in the Democratic Party. I believe we’re in denial of what’s happened. I’m pulling the fire alarm because the house is burning down,” Ryan said on Fox Business Network Monday.

“And we better get our act together or we’re going to cease being a national party. We’re going to be a regional party that fails to get into the majority and fails to do things on behalf of those working class people that were the backbone of the Democratic Party for so long,” he added.

Ryan, who launched his bid for House minority leader last week, noted the current populist fervor in the electorate.

“The average American, the average working class American, flipped their middle figure to the establishment, the Democratic establishment, the Republican establishment, Wall Street,” he said. “They think that everybody is more concerned with the donor class than they are the working class.”

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“White, black, brown, gay, straight. Everybody wants economic opportunity and they don’t see the Democrats as the party providing that,” Ryan said.