House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce she’s stepping down “probably after next year’s midterm elections,” writes Edward-Isaac Dovere for The Atlantic in a piece about Hakeem Jeffries potentially taking the reins from the California Democrat.
“Her top deputies… aspire to her job, but they’re also in their early 80s, and most Democrats in and out of Congress are counting on them to step aside too. Of course, they all have stock responses denying that anyone is ever going anywhere,” the article says. “But the day is coming.”
Pelosi, 81, in 2018 called herself a “bridge to the next generation of leaders” and agreed to a deal that she would serve as speaker for no more than four years.
But she hasn’t completely shut the door, fueling speculation she could seek to prolong her 18-year tenure ruling the House Democratic caucus. She has also continued to raise money.
“Everyone assumes this is her last term, but no one knows for sure,” said a confidante who recently spoke with CNN. “People don’t realize how hard it was to win (the speaker’s race) last time.”
But the Atlantic in its article, titled “The Next Face of the Democratic Party,” says “pretty much every Democrat in Congress and beyond is confident that” Rep. Jeffries, D-N.Y., could end up being the first Black speaker of the House.
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it’s not soon enough. she would probably continue if 2022 would be a blow out for the democrats. It will be the opposite and she would be demoted to minority leader or less which her ego can’t take.
Believe that only when it will actually happen. Whoever willingly gives up such power, especially after decades of enjoying the power itself, and all the unimaginable financial benefits that come with it?!
All those criminal politicians who’ve long been cv’d are suddenly before declass officially retiring.
All those criminal politicians who’ve long been cv’d are suddenly before declass officially retiring.
(The photo above which is not her is proof she’s been long cv’d.)