Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is reportedly doing “abysmal” after President-elect Donald Trump won and Republicans took control of the Senate and maintained their House majority.
When CNN's Manu Raju asked the 84-year-old California congresswoman how she was doing, she responded, “It's terrible.”
Pelosi's clearly sour mood comes a week after Trump's historic upset victory in which he swept all seven battleground states and won the popular vote.
“Thank you, God!” Trump said in an all-caps post this week as he reflected on his astonishing victory statistics.
“We won every battleground state and won the popular vote of about 7 million voters. We won 312 electoral votes,” he said, noting there was a similarly large increase in Texas. .
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Making matters worse for Pelosi and Democrats, Republicans have successfully retaken the Senate and added America-first figures like Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno to their ranks.
The final nail in the coffin for Pelosi and Democrats came this week, with Republicans officially expected to retain control of the House as well. Although some seats remain undecided, Republicans secured a minimum of 218 seats to gain a majority in the House.
It's clear that this three-way relationship made Pelosi feel “terrible.” And amidst the post-mortem, Pelosi is now questioning what the outcome would have been if Democrats had held an actual primary instead of coronating Vice President Kamala Harris, ignoring the will of millions of voters following the elites. suggests that “it would have been different.'' President Biden was ousted.
“And like I said, Kamala could have done that and I think she would have done just fine.” [a primary] And we will continue to grow even stronger. But we don't know that. That didn't happen. We live with what happened,” Pelosi said during an appearance on the show. new york timesNovember 9th episode of interview Podcast.
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“And the president's immediate endorsement of Kamala Harris made it nearly impossible to hold a primary at the time. Had it been sooner, things would have been different,” she lamented.
Notably, Pelosi didn't always feel that way; tell of wall street journal In August, a few months before the election, it turned out that it was actually a “public process.”
“[Harris] “Even though she had the president's support, she was politically astute and used that to shut it down — not shut it down, but win the nomination,” she said, adding, “Anyone else could have gotten in. '' he claimed.
