House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday that she is “confident” that Democrats will win the midterm elections on November 6 and that she will be elected Speaker of the House.
Pelosi told Amanpour — who praised her as a “trail blazer” and told her she had “achieved incredible things” — said that she might have stepped aside to make room for new leadership if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election, because she wanted to protect Obamacare — a law about which she said she felt “very proprietary.”
However, she said, since “45” had won — she declined to refer to him as “president” throughout the interview — she would stay and run for speaker, partly to inspire other women:
PELOSI: … If Hillary Clinton had won and the Affordable Care Act was protected — I feel very proprietary about that — I was happy to go my way. We didn’t know who would come forward, but that’s up to the caucus, they give me the honor of serving and it’s up to them to choose who comes next. But to have no woman at the table, and to have the Affordable Care Act at risk, I said as long as he’s here, I am here. So — 45 — not to be disrespectful, but —
AMANPOUR: You mean President Trump, “45.”
PELOSI: Yeah. So, no, but I have always been opposed — I think there was one election for leadership that I was not opposed in. People like to get started on what they think comes next, and that’s up to the caucus to decide. But I feel very comfortable about the support that I have in the caucus and that I will be the speaker of the house.
AMANPOUR: You definitely are going to stand and you definitely think you are going to win?
PELOSI: I think it’s really important, though, for women to see as well, because you can’t run away from a fight. You are in the arena. So when some people come forward and say, well, we should have somebody new, okay, you are in the arena, when the Republicans have such a poverty of ideas that the only thing they can put in their ads [sic] is that I am a San Francisco liberal who supports LGBTQ rights, I can take the heat. I don’t like implying that that’s not a good thing, our San Francisco values. But I want women to know that this isn’t easy. Power is never given way and it always has to be fought for and this is, again, a constitutional office and I feel very confident about the support of my colleagues as well as the fact that we will win the election.
Pelosi added that while she did not want to talk about impeaching President Donald Trump, she also did not oppose the idea, if “the facts are there.”
Pelosi served as speaker from 2007-2011, the first woman to hold the post. She pushed Obamacare through Congress, infamously saying, “We have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it.” Her stance cost her party control of the U.S. House in the 2010 midterm elections.
source: breitbart.com
Has Nancy Pelosi, checked with God, the one who created the Earth, and human life? He just might have other plans for her!
Pelosi, Shummer and Clinton need to Leave the United states of America. They are truly Anti American.
Probably Guilty of Multiple Crimes against the Country.
She needs to go far far away. Speaker of the nursing home
She’s more concerned about being the Speaker than she is of the District she represents. San Francisco has become a cesspool of rising crime and a LITERAL toilet of homelessness and disease. If she should be a speaker for anything, it should be for her 12th District of California and the people who voted for her, NOT the District of Columbia.
Au contraire mon Cher, it will never happen, not even in your wildest dreams!
Yes dear you might be the speaker in the County Prison.
It is a shame that there are untrustworthy people surrounding our President in the White House. These traitors MYST BE REMOVED and charged with treason. There are hundreds of capable Trump supporters who can man those positions as team players and assist in MAGA becoming a long-term reality!
As for Nancy Pelosi goes she is ignoring ALL of her party’s critics who want her to go away forever and to stop embarrassing them with her idiotic rants and rhetoric! Nancy said third trimester abortions were holy ground!
gag me
nancy is in need of mental health group
No way in hell should this dumb broad serve another term, let alone be speaker!
She needs to retire!!! She is not a good speaker anymore, she is too old to remember what she’s talking about, she stutters, has episodes of slurring her words and sometimes she says something that makes no sense at all. GO HOME OLD LADY!!!
How do you protect an idiot for others to watch and laugh? Give them James Comet. She will love him. HE Is A PROTECTED Idiot. Should work well.Now we must ask. KIDS??
Piglosi with obvious dementia as speaker of the house???? American demoturds cannot possibly be that stupid!!!
God help us if Nancy becomes anything. If she wants to be something let her retire.