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Thursday 19 November 2020

House Dems nominate Pelosi as speaker to lead into Biden era

Continued from Front House approval. Pelosi has the White House. Besides to our brand" by favoring back the House in 2018, 32
won wide acclaim among bitterness over their elec- policies he said cost jobs. of them voted against Pelo-
Clyburn revived Biden's Democrats as a leading tion setback, many Demo- "We can't continue to talk si's nomination as speaker.
faltering bid for the Demo- foe of outgoing President crats continue calling for down to people and only But that was a larger major-
cratic presidential nomina- Donald Trump in battles fresh leadership. Pelosi and talk about identity politics," ity than this one, giving her
tion this year by helping over impeachment, immi- Hoyer have been No. 1 and he said. more margin for error then.
him win the South Carolina gration and health care. 2 House Democrats since When the House elects its By the time the full House
primary, a turnaround mo- She's given as good as 2003, while Clyburn rose new speaker, Pelosi will elected her in January
ment in Biden's campaign. she's gotten from the insult- to the No. 3 ranks in 2007. need the majority of votes 2019, she'd whittled down
"The theme, I think, of what prone Republican presi- Pelosi and Clyburn are 80, cast by both parties. Since her opposition and just 13
we do next has to be about dent, sometimes directly Hoyer is 81. nearly all Republicans are Democrats voted against
justice" in the economy, to his face, prompting him Pelosi's reelection by the expected to back their her or voted "present."
health care and policing, to call her "Crazy Nancy" House would give her a leader, Rep. Kevin McCa- Of the 13 Democrats who
Pelosi told her colleagues and supporters to create seventh and eight year as rthy, R-Calif., Pelosi can opposed Pelosi in 2019,
after the vote, according memes and action figures speaker. She served the first afford to lose only a few two have been defeated
to a transcript released by honoring her. four during the 2000s until Democrats. and one, Rep. Jeff Van
her office. Underscoring But with some votes still be- Republicans recaptured When Pelosi nailed down Drew of New Jersey, be-
Pelosi's emphasis on inclu- ing tallied in this month's the House majority in the the support she needed to came a Republican. That
siveness, five of the seven elections, 10 incumbent tea party election of 2010, become speaker in 2018, leaves 10 Democrats who
Democrats who'd planned House Democrats have a conservative uprising that she said she'd agreed to voted against her, though
to deliver speeches back- been defeated, dashing presaged the rise of Trump. a proposal limiting her another, New York's Antho-
ing her candidacy were expectations of adding In one indication of her to serving in the job only ny Brindisi, may still lose his
women. They included seats and damaging party strength, one conservative through 2022. Several law- election.
congresswoman-elect morale. Democrats were Democrat who's opposed makers and aides said Pelosi has pushed bills
Nikema Williams, who won on track to have perhaps a Pelosi before said he ex- memories of that commit- through the House — they
the Atlanta-area district 222-213 majority, one of the pected her to be reelect- ment could lessen her op- died in the GOP-run Senate
represented by Democrat- smallest in decades. ed and said he might sup- position this time. Also po- — embodying Democratic
ic Rep. John Lewis, the civil This has sparked finger- port her this time. tentially helping Pelosi is the priorities overhauling eth-
rights champion, until his pointing, with progressives "I think she gets it," Rep. Kurt decision by Rep. Cheri Bus- ics and campaign finance
death in July. saying the party failed to Schrader, D-Ore., who said tos, D-Ill., to step aside as laws, lowering health care
The full House will formally adequately win over mi- he's spoken to Pelosi about chair of House Democrats' costs and rebuilding infra-
elect the new speaker nority and young liberal the need for a moderate political arm. Some Dem- structure. She's also been
when the new Congress voters. Moderates say that agenda, said in an inter- ocrats have faulted the a prodigious fundraiser for
convenes in early January, they were hurt by far-left view. "She may be the bul- Democratic Congressional candidates.
shortly before Biden's Jan. initiatives like defunding wark against the extreme Campaign Committee for To prevent lawmakers from
20 inauguration. Hoyer's the police and that Pelosi far-left." insufficiently protecting crowding unsafely into one
and Clyburn's jobs are par- should have struck a pree- Schrader said far-left pro- moderate Democratic in- room, Democrats' lead-
ty positions that don't need lection stimulus deal with gressives have been "toxic cumbents from swing dis- ership candidates were
tricts. They're also unhappy delivering remarks to scat-
that the committee did not tered lawmakers using
detect the huge numbers Zoom, the online meeting
of GOP voters Trump drew platform. Republicans met
to the polls — which was in a crowded hotel ball-
missed by Republican and room Tuesday and reelect-
independent pollsters alike. ed their current leadership
When Democrats won team.q