It must be brutal to watch people in your own party say they have no confidence in you. And yet, that’s just what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is confronting lately as her efforts to win a special election in the swing Sixth District of Georgia with a candidate named Jon Ossoff utterly failed, despite the Democrats reportedly spending a record $23 million on the race.
This loss was the fourth consecutive special election loss the Democrats have suffered, and as the Democrats’ top member in the House, Pelosi must bear much of the blame for these debacles. Although Pelosi is a 30-year member of her chamber — serving as its Speaker for four years when the Democrats were last in the majority, many are saying the 77-year-old veteran is past her prime and needs to step down for the good of her party. Of course, President Trump and others (such as Republican Newt Gingrich, who appears in this clip) have said this would be a horrible mistake — they would love to see Pelosi stay right where she is for the next ten years, or even longer!
Viewers likely know the knives are out for Pelosi when even Democratic Congressmen like Filemon Vela of Texas, who’s interviewed by Fox’s Melissa Francis in this clip, publicly speak out against her and say she has to go (Vela previously made headlines telling website Politico “you’d have to be an idiot to think we could win the House with [Nancy] Pelosi at the top”).
Watch, as this may very well be the beginning of the end of Pelosi.
