Nancy Pelosi may be helping a lot of Democrats to get elected to Congress this fall, but many apparently willing to return the favor.
The latest evidence came during a forum of candidates vying for a U.S. House seat in New Hampshire this week.
After several raised their hand indicating they would vote to impeach President Trump, then questions then shifted to a fellow Democrat.
Citing Pennsylvania Democrat Conor Lamb declaring he wouldn’t support Nancy Pelosi’s bid for a leadership position, the question said, “If you are elected, if you go down to Washington, D.C., if Democrats retake control of the chamber, would you support Nancy Pelosi as Speaker?
“If you would support her, raise your hand,” he said.
After a moment, only one candidate of the ten indicated he would back Pelosi.
He held his hand up for only two seconds before slinking back into the crowd.
Earlier this week, Politico reported 20 candidates across the country are publicly vowing to oppose a Pelosi candidacy.
A trend that started in earnest with Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), who won a special election deep in Trump country, has spread rapidly to encompass a growing cadre of candidates — many in must-win districts for Democrats — that threatens Pelosi’s nearly sixteen-year grip on the party’s leadership.
If Democrats win the House by a narrow margin, the 78-year-old leader could lose only a handful of lawmakers’ support and still secure the 218 votes needed to clinch the speakership in a floor vote.
In that scenario, Pelosi would face a freshman class with a significant bloc of Democrats who are on record promising to oppose her or calling for new leadership. Of the more than a dozen Democratic candidates who have survived their primaries and rejected Pelosi, most are in districts that top the list of targeted 2018 seats.
“If the Democratic Party is going to earn back the trust of the American people then we need to show them that we are serious about changing our politics – and that means we need a change in leadership,” candidate Max Rose said in a statement.
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