With his landslide triumph over Vice President Kamala Harris, President-elect Donald Trump most certainly marks the start of the end of control over Democratic politics by aging stalwarts like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California.
Pelosi, “who for decades reigned as kingmaker in her party, facing the prospect of having her status as a power player in the party unceremonistically stripped away on the back of” Harris’s defeat, the DailyMail.com notes.
The startling drop happens just months after her major participation in initiatives aimed at removing President Joe Biden from the ballot.
According to the publication, the 84-year-old Pelosi was clearly distraught during Harris’s Wednesday concession address at Howard University and was observed interacting angrily with fellow Democratic insider and former DNC chairman Donna Brazile.
DailyMail.com reported further: Pelosi finds herself at the heart of the charges as the blame game gets more intense following the unexpected death of the vice president.
Business investor and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary remarked this week, “The influences of a [Senator Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer or a Pelosi or a movie star or an Obama deciding to anoint somebody – those guys are gone.”
“In four years, they won’t have that kind of influence,” he said in a subtly disguised allusion to actor George Clooney, who famously and publicly urged Biden to resign following a poor debate with Trump.
Some Republicans are outright blaming Pelosi for the notable Democratic losses—from the top of the ticket to the Senate turning red and the House still in debate.
Former GOP House Speaker and fellow Californian Kevin McCarthy remarked during a Fox News interview last week, “You’ve got to blame Nancy Pelosi.”
Just months before Election Day, Pelosi was clearly identified as a major player in Biden’s July decision to drop from the ballot.
McCarthy further said that the initiative was an attack on the democratic process since main voters all throughout the nation voted for Biden just to see Harris appointed as nominee.
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“Joe Biden never ought to have entered the field for candidacy. Sitting with him, I knew it. McCarthy stated, something was wrong with him.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bought into the irrational fear-mongering many in her Democratic Party have been using to criticize President-elect Donald Trump’s great triumph over Vice President Kamala Harris, making illogical assertions about entering an era of “fascism” and “authoritarianism.”
When it became clear Trump would win Tuesday evening, the New York Democrat sent a note to her social media following.
“I’m not here to sugarcoat what we all are going to collectively experience; rather, I believe that our preparation will help to establish community. There is no decision available to us. We have no option here. We should build here. We choose to keep fighting. We want to win. We decide to have each other, she remarked.
“We are going to start a political era with implications for our lifetime. We have not given up. We find ourselves, I believe, in a period when there are, let’s say, peers in history of huge movements of people that organize to protect one another in times of fascism and authoritarianism. This period has precedence. And this is the time we are about to enter, she asserted without any proof.
“Donald Trump has discussed using the military on American individuals he considers as his domestic political rivals. Authoritarians and those he closely associates with strongmen overseas in governments like that, it is not unusual to imprison political dissidents or legislative opposition. We very realistically could be entering this planet. And the way we do everything we can to stop this is by constructing a very strong social fabric and social infrastructure, she added.