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Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting more colorful with her language as we move closer to the presumed inauguration of Joe Biden in January. Now that the stimulus bill has passed, the claws are coming out. According to Politico over the weekend, she told her leadership staff, “I’m counting down the hours ‘til he’s gone. I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands and his feet.”
Oh, Nana. It might behoove you to reflect on your own current popularity. After barely maintaining her majority in the House, Pelosi was once again nominated to serve as Speaker next term. However, there is a not-so-insignificant portion of Americans who think her time is past. Even among Democrats, she holds a slim majority of support.
After Racial Reckoning, DCCC Taps Top Aide Accused of Exemplifying ‘Systemic Racism’
Tim Persico pushed black candidate to steer clear of congressional race sparking blowback from progressive groups Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney / Getty Images
December 22, 2020 3:48 PM
The new executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018 attempted to convince a minority candidate to remove himself from a Democratic primary, leading to accusations of systemic racism.
Newly elected DCCC chairman Sean Patrick Maloney named as his top staffer on Tuesday Tim Persico, a longtime party operative who drew fire in 2018 when he was deployed to Pennsylvania to persuade a black progressive pastor, Greg Edwards, to run for local office instead of Congress. Edwards told local news at the time that Persico viewed former Bethlehem mayor John Callahan, a white man, as the party’s strongest candidate even though Edwards had posted strong fundraising numbers.
Stacey Abrams Staffer Helping Biden Pick Justice Department Team
Stacey Abrams, the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Georgia governor in 2018, speaks at a get out the vote rally Nov. 2 in Atlanta. (Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
After winning the vote in the Electoral College last week, former Vice President Joe Biden said the election process “should be celebrated, not attacked.”
Biden derided what he called “baseless claims about the legitimacy of the results” of the presidential election and said, “Respecting the will of the people is at the heart of our democracy, even if we find those results hard to accept.”
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