Post by trueblue on Aug 14, 2022 16:24:07 GMT
'After Nancy Pelosi: A San Francisco Race 'That Shall Not Be Named'
SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi has made two very different, almost irreconcilable statements about her political future.
In 2018, she pledged that 2022 would be her last year as House Democratic leader, acceding to a term limit to quell an uprising and secure a second stint as speaker. In January, she announced that she was running for another two-year term in the House.
With the House’s passage of a sweeping measure to address climate change and prescription drug prices Friday — “a glorious day for us,” Pelosi said — and her China-defying trip to Taiwan serving as a diplomatic career capstone, the question of what comes next for Pelosi is only intensifying.
Will she press to stay on as speaker if Democrats somehow hold the House? Or, if Republicans take control, will she simply retire?
In 2018, she pledged that 2022 would be her last year as House Democratic leader, acceding to a term limit to quell an uprising and secure a second stint as speaker. In January, she announced that she was running for another two-year term in the House.
With the House’s passage of a sweeping measure to address climate change and prescription drug prices Friday — “a glorious day for us,” Pelosi said — and her China-defying trip to Taiwan serving as a diplomatic career capstone, the question of what comes next for Pelosi is only intensifying.
Will she press to stay on as speaker if Democrats somehow hold the House? Or, if Republicans take control, will she simply retire?