House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s main competition for speaker in 2019 “can’t even sleep” because of all the calls she’s receiving about the possibility of new leadership, especially from those who call the shots in D.C.

“I can’t even sleep my phone is going off so much,” Rep. Marcia Fudge, of Ohio, said Friday after meeting with Pelosi about the upcoming election for Democratic Caucus leadership.

Fudge’s comments to the Associated Press reveal the kind of folks the 66-year-old congresswoman deems important in her work on the Hill.

The calls of support, she said, are coming “not just from people from within this institution, but people outside of this institution who are excited about the possibility of change and new leadership.

“I mean, I’m hearing it from lobbyists, from labor, from tons and tons of people,” Fudge said. “And so there’s a great deal of hope and excitement about the fact that there could be new leadership.”

Fudge explained why Pelosi needs to go in an interview with The Huffington Post earlier this week, when she described the San Francisco politician as “an elitist” and downplayed Pelosi’s role in guiding Democrats back to a majority in the House.

“She’s a very wealthy person. She raises a lot of money from a lot of other wealthy people,” Fudge said.

Fudge pointed to the 63 seats Democrats lost in the 2010 election following Pelosi’s first stint as speaker, as well as Democrats’ failure to win back the lower chamber in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

“Everybody wants to give her such big credit for winning back the House, and she should be here because she won. She didn’t win it by herself,” Fudge said.

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“If we’re going to give her credit for the wins, why is she not responsible for all the losses?” she questioned.

Fudge spoke a little more gingerly in her conversation with the Associated Press on Friday after meeting with Pelosi earlier in the day.

“I want to be real clear about this one thing,” she said. “Nancy Pelosi was a very, very good leader, and is a very good leader. I don’t ever want anyone to go away and think this is a personal issue … she is very good at what she does.”

When a reporter asked Fudge whether Pelosi specifically asked her not to run for speaker, Fudge gave a long pause to choose her words carefully.

“No,” Fudge said, “what she asked me was basically how we could get to a point where I could be supportive.”

Fudge also avoided a question about whether there were things Pelosi could offer that would convince her to abandon a possible run for speaker.

“I think that the biggest issue that we discussed was the feeling in the caucus of people who are feeling left out, and left behind,” she said. “And so that was my biggest thing.”

“I told her I’m going home for Thanksgiving to talk with my family and then I’ll have a decision,” Fudge told the AP.