Top Democrats may have helped Jason Crow win the primary for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to support them if he wins the November election.

“I won’t be supporting Nancy Pelsoi,” Crow told The Denver Post. “I want new leadership to step up and move this country forward.”

Crow was the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s choice to defeat U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora. Coffman has held the seat for close to a decade and has handily defeated every challenger in a district where registered Democrats are starting to edge out registered Republicans.

The DCCC named Crow one of its “red-to-blue” candidates in November 2017, and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-New York, infamously told Crow’s primary opponent, Levi Tillemann, to drop out of the race in a conversation caught on a secret audio recording.

Despite the support Crow got from top-ranking House Democrats, he remained adamant that he “wasn’t recruited for this race” and doesn’t believe he’s beholden to party establishment.

Crow decided to run for office long before the DCCC gave their support to his campaign, he said.

“I’ve been consistently calling for a new generation of leadership,” Crow said.

Tyler Sandberg, a spokesman for Coffman’s campaign, doesn’t believe Crow would really fight for a new Democratic leader in the House.

“The truth is Jason Crow can never be his own man in Congress as he owes his entire candidacy to the liberal Washington, D.C. special interests that have underwritten his candidacy to the tune of millions of dollars and tried to strong-arm his opponent out of the primary,” Sanberg said.

He pointed to the $1.76 million in television ads that House Majority PAC, a group working to elect Democrats around the country, has reserved in the CD-6 race.

“It’s an expensive race because it’s an important one,” Crow said. “The path to a majority for both parties runs through this district.”