Defiant Nancy Pelosi says she’s not going anywhere

Furthermore, Ms. Handel also linked Mr. Ossoff to the deeply unpopular Democratic minority leader, Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi, who carved out a number of new leadership positions after last year’s elections, suggested her Democratic critics are simply ignoring the opportunities available.

“When it comes to the issues, we are united in terms of our concern for America’s working families”.

“I think I’m worth the trouble, quite frankly”.

David Wasserman, who analyzes House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote Wednesday that the results Tuesday in Georgia and another special election in SC “were far from a disaster for Democrats, and Republicans shouldn’t be tempted to believe their House majority is safe”.

Despite initial relief among Georgia’s 6th District residents that the barrage of campaign ads has come to an end, the reprieve might not last too long.

In fact Pelosi, 77, has emerged as a favorite GOP bogeyman and was the target of a barrage of negative advertising in the Georgia House race, mocking her as a San Francisco liberal and tying her to Ossoff. Pelosi has led the Democratic caucus in the House since 2003, and in March said she would have retired had Hillary Clinton won the election.

Lujan said Tuesday’s results show Democrats have the momentum to flip the 24 seats they need to reclaim control. That colleague is Representative Tim Ryan from OH, but he is not the only one in the Democratic Party who feels this way about Pelosi.

At a campaign-style rally in Iowa on Wednesday evening, President Trump praised recent GOP special election victories and his administration’s accomplishments to date, while criticizing the media and Democrats. But now, after a string of disappointments, those divisions have re-emerged, though Pelosi appears unlikely to face an immediate challenge.

“If we had even a little Democrat support, just a little, like a couple of votes – you would have everything”, he told the crowd.

“I think our leadership owes an explanation of what happened, how resources were spent, but also a plan going forward”, Moulton said yesterday. “And I’m not sure that that’s there yet”. “But today I don’t feel that way at all – I feel proud”.

And for some, they point to questions about how their leaders, and Pelosi in particular, have fallen short in crafting an economic message that can counter Trump and yield election victories. Debbie Dingell of MI.

And since Handel defeated a 30-year-old Democrat in the most expensive House race in the country, she enters Congress with a relatively high profile, Lake noted.

“Do you think she’s doing a good job, congresswoman?” It could have inspired them to want to stand, fight and win again.

Democratic leaders said there are at least 70 other districts that will be easier terrain for them than the one in Georgia after post-census gerrymandering in GOP-led states created so many heavily Republican districts.

“They pick people in safe and tough districts for Democrats to win”, Crowley said Wednesday. The daughter and sister of former Baltimore mayors, she rose quickly through Democratic ranks in the 1980s as California party chairman, then finance chair for the party’s Senate campaign committee. “We must now put forth our message”. From a mass assassination attempt in Washington by a Bernie Sanders supporter to left-wing activists burning down small businesses, rioting, blocking conservatives from college campuses, and persecuting Christian small businessmen, the GOP has a plausible argument that emboldening the Democrats will just cause more violence.

The race was for a reliably Republican seat vacated by Tom Price, who became President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary.