Posted on 11/18/2020 7:44:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Nancy Pelosi has been reelected speaker of the House by her caucus for the next session of Congress, marking what will be her fourth term with the gavel. The caucus vote was conducted virtually, but Pelosi was approved with a voice vote.
Pelosi, 80, did not not face any challenge for her post, but she will also need to secure a simple majority — 218 Democratic votes — by the full House of Representatives in January to be sworn in again as speaker.
In 2019, several Democrats voted for someone other than her on the floor, but with a slimmer margin in the majority after the 2020 election, she cannot afford to lose more than a handful of votes.
House Democrats are holding leadership elections as they grapple with unexpected losses and the prospects for a Congress that remains divided. The GOP appears likely to maintain control of the Senate. Plus House Republicans picked up at least eight seats and several races are too close to call.
Other top Democratic leaders — Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. — who are 80 and 81 — are also running unopposed. House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, of New York, did not face any competition for his post as the fifth-ranking leader, and was reelected on Wednesday.
Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., who ran the House Democrats' campaign arm, said she would not run for another term. Two other Democrats — Rep. Tony Cardenas of California and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York — are vying for the position that will be decided later this month.
Top leaders and political analysts forecasted that Democrats would expand their majority — potentially picking up as many as 15 seats — but the party's disappointment instead
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“...Nancy the Ripper...”
Yep.
And the godless, vile, demonic Botoxian can rip one is a thousand different ways too....but only after it gets approval from its Big Daddy in hell though.
A million times easier to take over and rebrand the existing party than to start a new one. Rat base more than firm enough to easily prevail in any 3-way scenario.
Exactly. Make the RINOs be the ones that start the new Party if they don’t want to join us.
435. 218 is a majority.
$$$$$$$$$$$$
The four know-nothings led the party's death march to the left, blessed, glorified
and put into key House positions.......by none other than Speaker Pelosi herself.
Pelosi even put them on the cover of Rolling Stone....so eager
was she to cement them as the happy faces of the new Democrat Party.
There's wigged-out Pressly, the execrable AOC and the venal Somali Muslim Omar.
The fourth happy face, terrorist Tlaib, must be wiping up the floor....cackle
The Squad is on the defensive....lying through their teeth, hustling to protect their leftist bailiwick.
Raghead Somali Muslim Omar said Democrats are just one “big happy family.”
AOC went full lefty retard.... said she was not “aware” of any Democrats who campaigned on socialism.
REALITY CHECK Both Omar and Ocasio-Cortez sap-happily led efforts to defund police departments.
republican congressfolk should vote for Pelosi as speaker of the house — think of the Dem losses one more Pelosi term would give!! :)
She probably sent them all a case of wine from her winery.
Because buying votes is how you accomplish what you want.
We need more transparency as to how Pelosi hangs onto a leadership position year after year.
Clearly, she uses tax dollars to finance giveaways for votes.....
<><> free tax-paid trips and tours using govt staff, govt aircraft and ground transportation,
<><> tax dollars flowing to their districts via assorted customized "funding programs,"
<><> inside info on pending laws to personally profit,
<><> access to multiple govt pension programs,
<><> and so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.
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Pelosi also controls campaign money-----all those losing House Democrats should
ask what she did with that money since they didnt seem to benefit from it.
Agree with what you say.
Rashida Tlaib would be a great second choice as well.
She deserves it, but not in a good way. Same way she deserves hell.
And just like RBGinsburg the happy days come to an ignoble end and the wait for eternal judgement begins.
Really sucks to wake up in purgatory because you know you are there for sentancing, nothing else.
“Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. — who are 80 and 81...”
I am concerned these rich old white guys will want to have the state pay all their expenses so that they can pass their ill-gotten wealth to their heirs.
You are right, Pelosi has to be elected by the full House.
Their first duty is to elect a Speaker.
No surprise. She knows the game.
How can they vote when there are so many elections not yet called. If the repubs win all of them pelousy isnt in the majority.
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