USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page Releases ‘Madam Speaker’ Book on Nancy Pelosi
Page’s biography of Pelosi is her latest book since “The Matriarch” on the life and impact Barbara Bush
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USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page today released her new book “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power.”
Page’s biography of Nancy Pelosi is the inside story of how the most powerful woman in American political history outwitted her foes, dominated the Democratic Party with an “iron fist in a Gucci glove” and stood up to Donald Trump. Page interviewed House Speaker Pelosi 10 times during the past two years for her biography and spoke exclusively with more than 150 friends, family members and notable political allies and adversaries – including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Boehner and Newt Gingrich.
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MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Former House Speaker John Boehner no longer watches much cable TV news. Noise, he calls it.
It was only when aide John Criscuolo texted him a tweet with some raw video attached – Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol, it read – that he learned the Congress in which he had served for a quarter-century was under siege by a mob.
A mob whose members said they were encouraged by a president from his own party, and one he had sometimes advised.
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USA TODAY’s Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page explains four reasons why Mike Huckabee’s presidential run matters.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks during the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition 2015 Spring Kickoff on April 25 in Waukee. In an Iowa Poll of likely GOP caucusgoers earlier this year, Huckabee received the highest favorability rating: 66%.(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)
DES MOINES, Iowa Mike Huckabee made it official Tuesday: He’s running for president again.
If he wants to win Iowa again, however, GOP activists said Huckabee will have to adapt to higher expectations than he faced as a relative unknown ahead of his 2008 Iowa caucuses victory. He will also have to outlast a crowded field of candidates looking for a chunk of the conservative bloc that carried him to victory in 2008.