{"id":1209575,"date":"2022-01-11T22:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1209575"},"modified":"2022-01-11T22:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T03:19:34","slug":"pelosi-believes-house-democrats-in-good-shape-before-midterms-as-droves-are-leaving-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-believes-house-democrats-in-good-shape-before-midterms-as-droves-are-leaving-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Believes House Democrats in &#039;Good Shape&#039; Before Midterms as Droves Are Leaving the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-believes-house-democrats-in-good-shape-before-midterms-as-droves-are-leaving-the-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1209575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the House&nbsp;Democrats are in \u201cgood shape\u201d heading into the midterms and&nbsp;predicted the Democrats would remain in the House majority,&nbsp;despite the 26 congressmen who have announced plans to leave after the current term.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the 26 Democrats who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/10\/perlmutter-26th-democrat-announce-house-exit\/\">announced<\/a> their plans to exit the House of Representatives after the current term, Pelosi, who has also been rumored to be retiring, <a href=\"https:\/\/email.punchbowl.news\/t\/ViewEmail\/t\/DD4AAD24DBFA2A9B2540EF23F30FEDED\/E1B2FA79A3FE541684E5AAD5A6C37FC6?alternativeLink=False\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Punchbowl News that she does not believe the 26 are a big deal and her caucus will remain in the majority past the midterm elections later this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>An interviewer asked Pelosi, \u201cDoesn\u2019t it mean that members are worried about losing the House?\u201d and she answered, \u201cNo, it doesn\u2019t. It means that they are getting on with their lives. And it\u2019s a very personal decision, but we\u2019re OK. We\u2019re good,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cWe are very much confident about the seats of people who are leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Pelosi was asked if the lead-up to this year\u2019s midterms feels the same as 2010 when the Republicans picked up 63 seats and took the majority. She said,&nbsp;\u201cNo. Not at all. Not at all. It has nothing to do with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19315514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nancy-pelosi-gavel-kevin-mccarthy-house-of-representatives-file19-gettyimages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19315514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nancy-pelosi-gavel-kevin-mccarthy-house-of-representatives-file19-gettyimages.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 03: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) smiles after receiving the gavel from Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R) (R-CA) following her election as the next Speaker of the House during the first session of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol January 03, 2019 in Washington, DC. Under the cloud of a partial federal government shutdown, Pelosi reclaimed her former title as speaker and her fellow Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the second time in eight years.(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) smiles after receiving the gavel from Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) following her election as the next Speaker of the House during the first session of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol January 03, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, I think in 2010, the Republicans may have had more retirements than we have now. I\u2019m not sure about that. We\u2019re good. Everybody understands the challenge that our whole democracy is at stake,\u201d Pelosi added.<\/p>\n<p>But,&nbsp;Punchbowl noted that only&nbsp;19 House Republicans retired in the&nbsp;2010 cycle, much fewer than the current election cycle in which Democrats already have 26 leaving the House, with rumors of more to come.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi tried to explain that Democrats are in \u201cgood shape\u201d because Republicans \u201cwant to undermine the vote, undermine the integrity of our elections, undermine the sanctity of the vote and that impacts the quality of life for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Punchbowl also emphasized that Pelosi predicted the&nbsp;Democrats would hold their majority in 2010, which they did not.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/10\/perlmutter-26th-democrat-announce-house-exit\/\">reported<\/a> that while 26 Democrats have announced they would not seek reelection in the House, only eighteen Democrats have announced actual retirement from the public eye&nbsp;\u2014 including three committee chairs and multiple subcommittee chairs. But, eight more Democrats have also announced they would run for a different office, either in a local or state election.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the House\u00a0Democrats are in \u201cgood shape\u201d heading into the midterms and\u00a0predicted the Democrats would remain in the House majority,\u00a0despite the 26 congressmen who have announced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}