Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela: Pelosi ‘doesn’t help our candidates’

Speaking to reporters Thursday, Pelosi said Democrats are proud of the race they ran and she dispelled a question about stepping down.

Around the same time House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was declaring she had broad support to remain the top Democratic leader and jabbing back at her critics, a group of her colleagues met privately to brainstorm on whether there was a way to force her out.

“They are in for the races of their lives, and they know it”. “I think our leadership owes us an explanation for what’s gone on in these four elections, but also a plan for moving forward”. You have a baseball team that keeps losing year after year. They came tantalizingly close to taking a seat that Republicans have held since 1979, when Newt Gingrich, who would go on to become speaker of the House, was elected.

Pelosi, 77, has led the House Democratic caucus for almost 15 years, from the minority into the majority and back again. “It’s time for a new generation of leadership in the party”.

It’s about all they can do. “I sat in a meeting the other day, and I listened to a rationale as to how we should be happy as a caucus because we didn’t lose as badly. two days ago as we did a year ago”, Rice added.

Trump and Republican lawmakers have gloated over the wins, “but I think in private they’re actually very scared”, he said.

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. Democrats are clearly desperate for votes, particularly since their losses to Republicans since the Trump election have been against candidates that do not seem very appealing.

The apparent effectiveness of such attacks alarmed some fellow Democrats, and they show no signs of letting up. Gerrymandering GOP officials across the country have left so few districts in play that to succeed, Democrats must win over Republicans in places like Kansas’ 3rd District, which is now represented by Kevin Yoder. “I love the fray”, Pelosi said at a news conference, advising against a change of leadership at a time when Republicans dominate both chambers of Congress and the White House.

Handel’s swearing in comes less than a week after her wider-than-expected victory over Democrat Jon Ossoff in a nationally-watched special election that was viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump.

What we learned from Tuesday’s special congressional election in Georgia is that there is no magical solution to the country’s Trump problem.

President Donald Trump’s much-prophesied destruction of the Republican Party has yet to come to pass and, for now at least, appears to be mainly wishful thinking on the part of progressives. “This is good news for us”, she said. We don’t have either one of those. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY and other Democratic leaders began a series of procedural requests to slow down consideration of the legislation, a discussion draft of which posted shortly before the Senate convened.

‘I don’t think it’s fair, ‘ Ryan told Don Lemon. Tuesday’s wake-up call mirrored just how far they have to go to even get out of the batter’s box.

Some Democrats, though, have wanted her out, particularly after the party was unable to win back control in 2016, a year when the party was seen as having a decent chance of doing so. “I thrive on competition, and I welcome the discussion”, she said.