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Pelosi number one, hoyer number two. this goes all the way back. this was the headline, fall of 2001, democratic leadership election, the number two post, the whip. you see pelosi holding the whip there. pelosi hoyer. everybody knew the top job, the leaders spot was coming open soon and whoever won this race would be the next democratic leader. it had been years in the making and came to a head that fall. pelosi won 18, hoyer 95. pelosi becomes the top democrat a year later. hoyer moves in a slo...

Pelosi/hoyer one, two, a lot of history and friction. we say it is a rivalry. we think of it as an east coast/west coast rivalry, maryland versus california. here is where it gets wild. because before she was nancy pelosi from california she was nancy delesandro from baltimore, maryland and her father, tom, was the mayor of baltimore. politics is in nancy pelosis blood. in the 1960s, more than half a century ago she got her start as an intern in the u.s. senate office of maryland senator daniel ...