The California House Rep. was one the BEST US House Speakers….
That was THEN…..
Pelosi has gone rogue….
First getting VERY LOUD in pushing Joe Biden out of his Presidency….
Now?
The 84 year old Democratic US House member has gone out of her way to keep ‘rocking the boat’ about the parties LOSSES last week……OUT LOUD
She is NOT the House Democratic leader anymore…..
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is ticking off some House Democrats for publicly opining on what her party did wrong in 2024.
Why it matters: Pelosi needs to let House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) lead the caucus, Democrats tell Axios.
- “She needs to take a seat,” said one senior Democratic lawmaker.
- “Making scattershot comments is not just unhelpful, it’s damaging,” said the lawmaker.
“Hakeem has been tremendously graceful and respectful of her, but I don’t think she is being respectful of him,” said a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
- Both lawmakers insisted on anonymity.
- Pelosi still instills fear in the members she led for two decades.
Zoom in: The mounting frustration with Pelosi exists in the private conversations among House Democrats in various corners of the caucus.
- The trouble started when Pelosi agreed to an interview with The New York Times in which she suggested Biden should have dropped out of the race sooner.
- Had that happened, “there may have been other candidates in the race,” she said.
- Her comments ignited another round of finger-pointing and blame-shiftingbetween the Biden and Harris camps.
The intrigue: The NYT wrote up their story on Friday but didn’t post the full interview until Saturday.
- The transcript had more caveats and compliments than the initial article indicated, but it didn’t really matter. Pelosi had started a fire.
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