House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives to work a connection extracurricular her bureau connected Capitol Hill, Monday, March 23, 2020, successful Washington. | Pool photograph by Andrew Harnik
Nancy Pelosi, a legislative elephantine regarded arsenic 1 of the astir almighty speakers successful modern U.S. history, announced Thursday she volition forgo different tally for Democratic enactment but clasp her House seat.
“I volition not question reelection to Democratic enactment successful the adjacent Congress,” Pelosi said connected the floor.
Since she reclaimed the gavel successful 2018, the archetypal pistillate talker had planned to measurement down from enactment aft this term. However, she has said her determination was made much analyzable by the brutal battle of her hubby past month. Then, the Democrats’ better-than-expected midterm predetermination prompted calls for her to stay, including from President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Pelosi’s announcement paves the mode for existent caucus seat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), to win her aft months of steadily gathering support.
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