Pelosi defends leadership following special election loss

What’s more, there is already renewed pressure for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to step aside. Tip O’Neill famously said that all politics are local, and the liberal Boston speaker of the House practiced what he preached. Millions were spent on both sides – tons of money coming via liberal California in support of Democrat Jon Ossoff who was essentially hand picked by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. In an 11Alive News-Survey USA poll one week before Tuesday’s runoff, just 5 percent of Trump voters said they would vote for Ossoff, while just 4 percent of Hillary Clinton voters said they would switch parties to vote for Handel.

Celebrity songstress Cher jumped into the fray, and in answer to Moulton’s tweets observed that it’s time to bring in new blood. “I want to get back in the majority”. It needs a party that actively seeks to reduce income inequality by changing education to focus on creating more 21st-century job skills and by making it easier for older workers to launch new careers instead of being left behind by technological change.

It’s about all they can do. “What I am trying to do is move us in a direction where we have a conversation that is so necessary right now”. Some Bernie Sanders progressive Democrats argued that Mr. Ossoff’s main flaw was he was not progressive enough on certain issues.

“We’ve let people say that Nancy Pelosi is some awful person for so long without defending her that people started to believe it”.

While Rice acknowledged the credit Pelosi has been given by her colleagues for being a great fundraiser, Rice noted that the money hasn’t helped Democrats win elections Jada Pinkett.

It always starts with rumblings from back-benchers and denials from leadership, but make no mistake, the long knives are out for Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in the wake of the Jon Ossoff’s loss to Karen Handel in GA-6 Tuesday. Thus did Democrats sharply cut the Republicans’ 2016 margins in Kansas and Montana districts earlier this year. After Republican Karen Handel’s victory in a House special election on Tuesday in the Atlanta suburbs, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, declared, “Our brand is worse than Trump”.

Whit Ayres, a Republican consultant and Handel strategist, underscored her success in turning the contest into a normal partisan choice.

When a man with the strategy sense of Donald Trump attacks someone, it’s because they are effective, not because they are not good at their job.

Thank you @FoxNews “Huge win for President Trump and GOP in Georgia Congressional Special Election”. “To come within a hair’s breath of winning that seat is nothing short of extraordinary”, said House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairwoman Linda Sánchez, D-Calif.

Asked by Lemon if he thought Pelosi was more toxic than Trump, Ryan said yes.

“You know you can sit here and we’ll talk about Russian Federation all day long today on Capitol Hill and in Washington. People in OH don’t grab me about Russian Federation at all when I’m home”, Ryan said.

None of that suggests that Pelosi faces an immediate challenge to her leadership.

And Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, remarked that “we had no business winning those districts” due to their GOP allegiance.

“Republicans blew through millions to keep a ruby-red seat, and in their desperate rush to stop the hemorrhaging, they’ve returned to demonizing the party’s strongest fund-raiser and consensus builder”, Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, told The New York Times.

Other Democratic leaders echoed his sentiment.

“Senator Reid was a target, Senator Daschle was a target, Tip O’Neill was a target”, Pelosi said. “We’re a family. We’re going to have those discussions”.

“Perhaps no single image better captured the left’s and mainstream media’s disappointment than this picture from CNN’s election coverage last night”, she said in reference to the screenshot, adding: “Mailman didn’t run over your dog, guys, it’s gonna be OK”.