Are Democrats finally getting sick of Rep. Nancy Pelosi ruling the roost? A new report is shedding some light on the internal civil war that has broken out within the Democratic Party, and the California congresswoman has found herself at the center of it. And to be clear, it’s completely her fault.
Pelosi made waves over the summer when she led the effort to end President Joe Biden’s re-election effort, ultimately leading to the coronation of Kamala Harris. I don’t think I need to explain how that turned out. Yet, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s landslide victory, Pelosi is still talking, and some of her colleagues are just about sick of it.
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is ticking off some House Democrats for publicly opining on what her party did wrong in 2024.
Why it matters: Pelosi needs to let House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) lead the caucus, Democrats tell Axios.
- “She needs to take a seat,” said one senior Democratic lawmaker.
- “Making scattershot comments is not just unhelpful, it’s damaging,” said the lawmaker.
“Hakeem has been tremendously graceful and respectful of her, but I don’t think she is being respectful of him,” said a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The latest controversy was sparked by Pelosi telling The New York Times that had Biden dropped out sooner, the election may have turned out differently. Specifically, she cited the possibility of having a compressed primary instead of anointing Harris, which is what ultimately occurred.
Is she wrong? Not necessarily, but how do Democrats want to hear what they “should” have done from the person who so royally screwed things up that Donald Trump, the man they compare to Adolf Hitler, got re-elected? Pelosi flew too close to the sun. She believed herself to be above the will of her party’s primary voters and executed a soft coup on the rightful nominee. The result was an abject disaster.