Breaking…Nancy Pelosi WILL stay till 2022 at least….
December 12, 2021 By jamesb Leave a Comment
No surprise in this at all…
There was NO way Democrats wanted their dominate congressional leader to leave her job and become a lame duck leader going into next years midterms….
And?
Do NOT be surprised if she stays to help Joe Biden keep his job for four more years….
She will have the support to do this from House Democrats….
Progressive Democrats do NOT have the votes to displace her…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay until at least after the midterm elections, extending her nearly 20-year run as the House's top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps, beyond.
She is planning to file and run for reelection in her San Francisco district next year — at least for now — in keeping with her pattern of deciding about staying in Congress after the elections, when she likely will have won an 18th full term.
And sources familiar with Pelosi's thinking say she isn't ruling out the possibility of trying to stay in leadership after 2022, despite her original vow to leave as the top House Democrat. She'll devote much of next year to raising money for Democrats as they try to hold their narrow majority, those sources tell CNN, adding to the nearly $1 billion her office calculates she has already raised for Democrats in her time as leader.
The months of tortuous negotiations over President Joe Biden's legislative initiatives are inspiring a contradictory mix of emotions. Many House Democrats are more eager than ever to see the California Democrat go and give way to younger leadership. But even many of those same lawmakers are terrified that, without her, they will be consumed by squabbling instead of fighting back against House Republicans at a moment when the fundamentals of American democracy appear to be on the line….
Still, several Democratic members argued that the post-Pelosi days will probably be easier to manage if, as most of the caucus now assumes, they end next year in the minority.
NY House Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is the early mention to succeed Pelosi as the House Democratic leadership….
But others are being mentioned….
image…CNBC
Filed Under: Government, Law, Politics Tagged With: Democratic House/Congressional Politics, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca)
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