She put an end to rumors of a possible retirement. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives and the most powerful woman in Washington, announced on Tuesday that she was a candidate for re-election to Congress, without saying whether she wanted to remain in the post of “Speaker”.
“This election is crucial,” said the 81-year-old woman, about the midterm legislative elections in which Joe Biden risks losing his majority in the US Congress.
“It is our democracy that is at stake, nothing less”, hammered the elected representative of California in a video posted on Twitter, evoking the assault on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump and the restrictions adopted in Republican states on access to the vote. “But as they say, we don’t mope, we act,” pleaded this skilful tactician, who has been surveying Congress since 1987 and knows the mysteries of power by heart. “This is why I am running for re-election,” she announced.
Nancy Pelosi, however, maintained the vagueness about her desire to be returned to the perch of the House of Representatives. The Democratic left wing has been pushing for a change in leadership for several years. It will still be necessary for the Democrats to retain their majority in November, which seems unlikely at the present time.
Trump’s Nemesis
Considered a moderate in her constituency of San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi is largely responsible for the passage of Joe Biden’s plan on infrastructure or Barack Obama’s major health reform. She also knows how to easily raise millions of dollars for Democratic candidates in parliamentary elections.
Conservatives, however, denounce the “arrogance” of this wife of a millionaire businessman, Frank Pelosi. During the four years of the Trump presidency, she had taken on the role of first opponent to the Republican billionaire. With a spectacular gesture, she tore up in February 2020 the last speech on the State of the Union of the tempestuous tenant of the White House.
Mother of five children, Nancy D’Alesandro, civil status, was born on March 26, 1940 in Baltimore in an Italian-American Catholic family. His father and his brother were mayors of this large industrial city in the northeast of the country.
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