Furious Democrats tell Nancy Pelosi to ‘take a seat’ with lawmakers sick and tired of her criticizing election defeats

Nancy Pelosi is under fire from her own Democratic lawmakers, who are chafing at her public complaints about what the party did wrong in the elections that resulted in the loss of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Several Democratic lawmakers have complained anonymously Axios about the former speaker.

“She needs to take her seat,” said a senior Democrat. ‘Making casual comments is not only useless, it is also harmful.’

Other Democrats think she should step back and let House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries take charge.

“Hakeem has been extremely gracious and respectful to her, but I don’t think she’s being respectful to him,” said a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Pelosi has led House Democrats with an iron fist for a decade, using her fundraising and vote-counting prowess to keep her members in line.

She voluntarily agreed not to run for party leader again in January 2023 and endorsed Jeffries, a New York Democrat, to replace her. She was given the title of speaker emerita.

Some lawmakers believe the 84-year-old is struggling to let go of her former power. She chose to remain in Congress as a regular lawmaker rather than retire completely.

“I understand this is a difficult transition for her because she is not the leader, but she is not,” the Congressional Black Caucus member said. Axios.

“She needs to understand what her new role is.”

Democrats are frustrated by a post-election interview Pelosi gave The New York Times where she said it would have been better for the Democratic Party if President Joe Biden had abandoned his re-election campaign earlier and the party had then held a competitive primary process to replace him.

The same Democrats cheered Pelosi in July when she used her considerable weight in the party to push Biden out as the candidate after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump.

But Pelosi told the Times she believed it was clear that Biden’s departure would be followed by an internal party contest for a new nominee, rather than an appointment by Vice President Kamala Harris.

“If the president had come out sooner, there might have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said. “The expectation was that if the president stepped aside, there would be an open primary.”

Pelosi had hinted in the first 24 hours after Biden’s departure that the party would have an open primary.

But Biden’s support for Harris — along with other prominent Democrats who backed her — ruled out the possibility of a challenger. Furthermore, Harris was the only candidate who could legally tap into Biden’s war chest.

“Kamala maybe, I think she would have done well in that and would have been stronger in the future. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, that made it virtually impossible to hold primaries at the time. “If it had been much earlier, it would have been different,” she added.

Harris lost to Trump in a landslide. The former president won 312 voters to her 226, captured all seven battleground states and won the popular vote by 3 million votes.

The Republicans also took back control of the Senate and retained control of the House of Representatives.

Pelosi was at Howard University when Harris conceded her loss. But she and Biden have yet to speak since she pushed him out of the race.

Pelosi also suggested that cultural issues were more responsible for Democrats’ losses than working-class losses.

“Guns, God and gays, that’s how they put it,” she said. “Guns, that’s a problem; gays, that’s a problem, and now they’re making the trans issue such a big deal in their priorities; and in certain communities, what they call God, what we call a woman’s right to choose.”

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As DailyMail.com exclusively reported in August, Biden left the race in late July after Pelosi sent him an urgent message: She was ready to make public her concerns that he would not be able to beat Donald Trump in November.

The ultimatum was clear: stop it now – otherwise Pelosi would destroy her political ally, and friend of fifty years, on the world stage.

Biden resigned.

Pelosi later said her big concern was that Democrats would defeat Trump in November.

‘Now I really asked for a better campaign. We didn’t have a campaign that was headed for victory. Members knew that in their districts,” she said August.

“My goal in life was that that man would never set foot in the White House again,” she said of Trump.