Pelosi to seek reelection with Democratic majority at risk

Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks throughout her weekly press convention, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 on the Capitol in Washington.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced Tuesday she's going to search reelection, ending hypothesis that she would retire as Democrats face the specter of shedding management of Congress within the 2022 midterms.

“Whereas we've got made progress, far more must be finished to enhance folks’s lives,” the 81-year-old Pelosi stated in a web-based video.

“This election is essential. Nothing much less is at stake than our democracy,” she added.

By saying she would search a nineteenth time period, Pelosi avoids changing into a lame duck in a 12 months when Democrats are clinging to a fragile majority within the Home and the get together is beneath stress to lift huge sums of cash to defend management of Congress.

Her determination to stay within the chamber follows bulletins by 29 Home Democrats that they gained’t search reelection this 12 months, in comparison with 13 Republicans because the GOP seems towards taking again the Home.

The get together that controls the White Home sometimes loses seats in Congress in midterm elections, and Democrats are defending each chambers at a time when President Joe Biden’s approval ranking has been slipping.

“Our democracy is in danger as a result of the assault on the reality, assault on the U.S. Capitol and the state-by-state assault on voting rights,” she added.

Within the video, Pelosi by no means addresses if she intends to hunt one other time period because the Home’s Democratic chief, if reelected.

The San Francisco Democrat made historical past 15 years in the past when she grew to become the primary feminine speaker of the Home. She has served in Congress since 1987.

Earlier this month in an interview with The Related Press, Pelosi solely hinted at one other run, saying she “might” search reelection.

In a Twitter submit, California Republican Kevin Kiley, a congressional candidate and state assemblyman, stated Pelosi’s announcement was “all of the extra purpose we'd like Republicans in Congress who will struggle.”

Pelosi might be a overwhelming favourite in her closely Democratic district — she gained with 78% of the vote in 2020. However she’s additionally working at a time when her hometown has been criticized for squalor and crime, together with daytime shootings in vacationer areas, widespread homelessness and smash-and-grab thefts at high-end shops.