Pelosi Urged to Step Aside

AP – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., walks through Statuary Hall, on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, …

Perhaps Pelosi thinks her bid for the minority leader is a slam dunk but, it appears as though democrats are looking at her more as being toxic.

In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.


"The reality is that she is politically toxic," said Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, one of several Democrats who are trying to pressure Pelosi to step aside as her party's leader in the wake of historic election losses to Republicans last week.

"You would find an unusual number of people not voting for the nominee of their party" if Pelosi were the choice, said Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah.

"There's a growing number of people in the caucus saying, 'Why's she running for minority leader in the first place?' We just got thumped in this election in a major way, and to act like we can just go back and do the same thing over again. It just seems like a very obvious situation when change is called for," Matheson said.

That is a great question. Why is she running? Well, the truth is, people like Pelosi are polarizing because, she just doesn't understand that she is not wanted by most of the American people. She seems to think that because she fits right in with the San Francisco elites, that all Americans like her. We don't.


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