1. Chine
His visit to Taiwan in early August, the first by an American official of this level for twenty-five years, stunned the planet. Nancy Pelosi braved threats from Beijing and doubts from the Pentagon to remind Americans of their commitment to support the island in the face of Chinese ambitions. This is not the first challenge she has launched to Chinese power. In 1991, two years after the bloody repression of the student movement, she had unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square : “To those who died for democracy in China. »
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2. Speaker
The Democrat is the first woman to have been elected “speaker”, that is to say president of the House of Representatives. She held this position, the third most important in the country after the president and the vice-president, from 2007 to 2011, then from 2019 to the present. A record. At 82, she is considered the most powerful woman in the United States.
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3. Warrior
From his opposition to the war in Iraq to the procedure ofimpeachment (dismissal) against Donald Trump, it has been part of all the battles waged in Congress for thirty years. Both admired and hated, she has played a vital role in advancing or blocking the agendas of presidents, from Bush Sr. to Biden.
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4. Trump
Labeled by the press as “Trump’s Worst Nightmare” who nicknamed her « Crazy Nancy » (“Nancy the crazy”) on Twitter, she was his main opponent during his tenure. She refused to pass her budget providing for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border, tore up her 2020 State of the Union speech and opened a parliamentary inquiry aimed at investigating her dismissal.
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5. Obama
Former President Barack Obama sees in her “one of the most effective parliamentary leaders this country has ever known”. It was she who was able to convince elected officials to adopt her key health insurance reform in 2009. Rebelote under Biden: she has worked tirelessly to save her great social and climate plan, which has just obtained the approval of her camp in a less ambitious version called the “law on the reduction of inflation”.
6. Policy
She has politics in her blood. The youngest of six children, this Italian-American grew up in Baltimore, a city on the East Coast where her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., then her brother were mayors. At 20, she was invited to JFK’s inauguration ball. But she will wait until she has raised her five children before launching her own political career, at 47.
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7. San Francisco
She has been a Democrat for San Francisco since 1987. Her fights – such as same-sex marriage, access to care for HIV-positive people, the defense of human rights in China – find a favorable echo in this progressive Californian city which concentrates a large gay community and a large population of Asian origin.
8. Abortion
A practicing Catholic, she nevertheless denounced in June the cancellation by the Supreme Court of the Roe vs. Wade judgment which granted American women the right to have an abortion. To punish her for her position pro-choicethe Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore J. Cordileone, had banned her from Communion in May 2022. Never mind, she went to receive the blessing directly from the hands of the Pope in Rome!
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9. Argent
Nancy Pelosi is rolling in gold. With her husband, real estate magnate Paul Pelosi, she owns a winery in Napa Valley, a luxurious residence on the banks of the Potomac River in Washington, and a house in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the United States. States, Pacific Heights, San Francisco. She also masters the art of fundraising like no other: she has raised more than $680 million since 2002 for her party.
10. Retreat
To conciliate the young Democratic guard, she had promised in 2018 to limit her mandate to four years. A victory for the Republicans in the mid-term elections on November 8 would in any case sign the end of his reign. His visit to Taiwan risks being the last act of bravery of this dinosaur of American politics.
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