Pelosi Strikes Back: ‘I Think I’m Worth the Trouble’

A dozen or so House Democrats want Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to go after a dispiriting loss in a House election in Georgia.

“Nothing preps you for next election more than concluding your team is too virtuous to win & voters are too evil or dumb to see the truth”, tweeted Jonah Goldberg, senior editor at National Review. “But her time has come and gone”, Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., said Thursday on MSNBC. In 15 years, she’s raised nearly $570 million for Democratic campaigns. Their action plan: Keep talking. In this June 9, 2017 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speakson Capitol Hill in Washington.

It’s about all they can do. “I’m always open for a conversation”, he said.

Republicans – including President Donald Trump – have professed their glee that she’s still minority leader.

Although the party’s hit some tough losses, Pelosi is standing behind her positive spirit. However, Pelosi has insisted that she won’t step aside, claiming that she still has “overwhelming” support of Democrats in the House.

Following Ossoff’s loss, Democrats were quick to point out that the Georgia district was gerrymandered, that it had been in Republican hands since Newt Gingrich held the seat, and that Handle won a close race, while her Republican predecessor had won by a large margin.

Yet neither Ossoff’s campaign nor the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee attempted to tie Republican victor Karen Handel to Trump in a television ad even once.

Handel, who has a long record opposing LGBT rights, will represent Georgia’s 6 congressional district, which has historically leaned heavily Republican.

The apparent effectiveness of such attacks alarmed some fellow Democrats, and they show no signs of letting up. “They’re winning. So we have to address that reality”.

But it’s also clear that many Democrats in the House, if not the large majority, don’t see it that way.

Overall, Wasserman found, Democrats outperformed the voting tendencies of their districts by 8 percentage points in this year’s special elections, a good omen for 2018 even if they did not win a single one of the open seats.

Lemon asked Ryan if he believed Pelosi was more toxic than Donald Trump.

Trump separately asked on Twitter why the Obama administration didn’t stop Russian Federation from intervening in the election.

When pressed to give a name of who might fill that void, Rice said, “I look to a lot of my colleagues now”.

Trump seems to enjoy the focus on Pelosi, taking another jab Friday after tweeting about her the day before.

The longtime politician’s sentiments came just before Trump spoke of her in an interview with “Fox & Friends” which aired on Friday. “I need to step back and do what’s best for this party”, said Rice.

Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, another outspoken critic, also attended, according to sources – and some in the group continue to point to the Iraq war veteran as a young member who could be cultivated to run. Pelosi said with a nervous giggle.

On Thursday morning at her weekly briefing, Pelosi fielded several questions about calls for her to go.