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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol on in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
For decades, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has cast a long and influential shadow over Washington and Democratic politics.
Her father was mayor of a big city and her mother was his political organizer. But Pelosi didn t run for office until she was 46 years old, when most of her five children had flown the nest.
As the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, she took on the establishment that she s now a part of. She was privately planning her retirement until Donald Trump became president. In a new biography,
“She has never been good at the ‘talking out loud’ part of politics,” is how USA Today Washington Bureau Chief and longtime White House reporter Susan Page assessed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s skillset on Wednesday’s Late Show. And while she was responding to a more general question about the long-serving Speaker’s style from host Stephen Colbert, Page quickly applied that judgement to her attempt to explain Pelosi’s widely derided, what-the-hell-did-she-just-say? speech in the aftermath of the conviction of disgraced Minneapolis police officer and murderer Derek Chauvin. Colbert introduced the topic by terming Pelosi’s remarks, “tone-deaf,” and “inartful,” to which Page author of the brand new Pelosi biography, Madame Speaker: Nanci Pelosi And The Lessons Of Power herself politicly stated, “‘Inartful’ is a kind way to put it.”