The first woman to head the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, announced this Thursday that she is no longer running for office, but vowed to stay in Congress and defend new cases with her usual belligerence.
Nancy Pelosi – the Democratic congresswoman, outgoing leader of the US House of Representatives – has become one of the most influential figures in US politics, especially after Republicans named her as the main face of the opposition during Donald Trump’s presidential term ( 2017-2021).
For history, the image of Pelosi tearing up Trump’s State of the Union speech in February 2020 will remain, after the then president refused to greet her, at the entrance of the convention hall, leaving her hand outstretched.
At age 82, Pelosi is stepping down after Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives in the recent midterm elections. He announces that he will also leave the leadership of the Democratic bank to “younger generations”.
Pelosi is leaving the post she first held in 2007, when she became the first female “Speaker of the House” and established herself as an emerging figure in the Democratic Party, whose leadership she had achieved in 1976.
Ten years later, in 1987, he entered the U.S. Capitol for the first time, as a congressman, having easily won election for the San Francisco constituency – a seat he will continue to hold.
Nancy Pelosi was never a consensus figure either within Congress or within her party, where she preferred to be seen as a politician of the moderate wing, despite former President Trump classifying her as the spokesman of a “radical agenda”. left”.
In the era of Barack Obama, it served as a parliamentary “engine” for Democratic health reform, which would come to be known as Obamacare, and, in President Joe Biden’s current term, another Democrat with whom she is very close. , she became an advocate for the massive infrastructure investment plan.
His supporters praise his capacity for dialogue and his opponents fear his combat ability, as when, on the day of the invasion of the Capitol, January 6, 2021, he learned that Donald Trump would mingle with the assembled crowd approaching Congress . promised to receive the president with his fist.
“If he comes, I’ll take him down with my own fists. I’ve waited a long time for this moment,” promised Pelosi, whose office in the Capitol was raided and destroyed, one of the main targets of the radical extremists who support Trump and his positions. of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump never got around to giving Pelosi that pleasure, whom he nicknamed “crazy Nancy” (“Crazy Nancy”), but the congressman has only taken a more aggressive stance in recent years, favoring the image of a dialogue leader against the accusations of the Republicans, who saw her as the “arrogant” wife of a millionaire businessman and daughter of a wealthy family in Baltimore, where she was born on March 26, 1940.
A mother of five, Pelosi has always tried to reconcile her political and family life. but in a recent interview, he confessed that during the Iraq War in 2003, when he took on the role of a congressman who opposed the plans of former President George W. Bush, he no longer had time to take care of the household .
But Pelosi found time to preside over two “impeachment” trials against Trump and bet on a Democratic group leadership to try to bolster his party’s weight in Congress, in the 2018 midterm elections, eventually acknowledging that he had failed in his plan. , when his bank lost seats and especially some faces who identified with his political project.
“Pelosi is never under pressure. He can make everyone around him scream, but he never loses his cool,” one of his close associates said recently, recalling that the congressman maintained the same level-headedness when her husband, Paul Pelosi, was recently imprisoned in family home attacked by an intruder brandishing a hammer.
Pelosi still believed in recent weeks that Democrats would retain control of the House of Representatives despite indications to the contrary in nearly all polls, but he received confirmation of defeat with a promise that he will continue to serve in Congress. making him now more available for future goals, namely the protection of activists against the Chinese regime.
Source: DN
