The anti-Pelosi faction in the House Democratic caucus has coalesced around a new strategy in their campaign to prevent the California representative from reclaiming the Speaker’s gavel: recruit a woman to challenge her.
The Hill reports:
The shift in approach comes as the rebellious group has been faced with a barrage of criticism for trying to take down Pelosi, who became the first female Speaker of the House in 2007, on the heels of an election cycle being dubbed the “Year of the Woman.”
Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.), one Pelosi detractor, hammered the argument that the California Democrat’s promotion is the only way to secure female leadership at the very top of the party.
“To those who say that this is an issue of gender, that’s just not true. I’m a woman, and a lot of our new members are women, and they should not be made to feel that they are anti-woman if they don’t want to vote for Nancy Pelosi,” Rice said Wednesday, leaving a closed-door Democratic meeting in the Capitol.
“We have an enormous number of talented women in the caucus — an enormous number.”
Pelosi and her allies have – up to this point – used her gender to their advantage, especially with President Trump in the White House.
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