Nancy Pelosi was furious that she had to 'beg' her Democratic colleagues to elect her speaker again in 2019 and blamed progressives for nearly costing them the House in 2020, according to a new book.
The California Democrat, who's been in the House for 35 years, complained that her newcomer progressive colleagues like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal were vying to be the 'queen bee' of the left, according to 'This Will Not Pass' by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
She reportedly told one senior lawmaker that Democrats had alienated Asian and Hispanic immigrants with loose talk of socialism and callousness about abortion.
The 82-year-old Italian Catholic speaker said that with immigrant communities, 'Democrats had not been careful enough about the way they spoke about abortion among new Americans who were devout people of faith,' according to excerpts obtained by Punchbowl News.
Nancy Pelosi was furious that she had to 'beg' her Democratic colleagues to elect her speaker again in 2019 and blamed progressives for nearly costing them the House in 2020, according to a new book
Pelosi this week said in an interview with Time Magazine she has 'fear for our democracy' if Republicans take back the House, as they may very well be poised to do - they only need to win over five seats.
However, she insisted: 'I don't have any intention of the Democrats losing the Congress in November.'
'If anything, we'll pick up seats rather than lose 10 to 15, which conventional wisdom said that we would.'
Pelosi served as Speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011 when Democrats lost power and from 2019 to now. In 2019, when she had her shot at her second stint in the seat, 'The experience of begging for support was wearing on her.'
'Pelosi was the only Democrat in the chamber — the only Democrat alive — who had already served as Speaker, who had shown she could do the legislative arithmetic and twist the necessary arms to get things done. And yet [her fellow Democrats] were making her grovel. 'At this point in my life, I don't need this,' she vented.
Pelosi, who has said she won't seek the speakership for the 2023 congressional term, reportedly said: 'You couldn't pay me a billion dollars to run for Speaker again.'
The reporters remarked in the book that her victory in holding onto speakership 'seemed like a
