Pelosi’s office REJECTS claims daughter is helping Feinstein to aid Adam Schiff’s Senate campaign

Chair Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s office denied that her daughter has been roaming the Capitol with Senator Dianne Feinstein to ensure the 89-year-old stays in office to help Adam Schiff’s Senate campaign.

Feinstein was away from the Senate for 10 weeks recovering from shingles and public demands for her resignation mounted, but a staunch defender – Pelosi – insisted such calls were sexist.

It came to light this week that Nancy Corinne Prowda, the eldest daughter of the speaker emerita, has acted as a caretaker of sorts to Feinstein, the senior member of the Senate.

When asked if the arrangement was intended to support Schiff’s campaign, Pelosi spokesman Aaron Bennett answered curtly “no.”

Sources suggested Politics that the deal was to ensure that Feinstein, whose state of confusion and misremembering was evident in the Senate, remained in office until the end of her term.

The 58-year-old marketing executive has appeared with the outgoing senator following the departure of several trusted associates, amid questions about her eligibility for office.

Meanwhile, Representative Adam Schiff is locked in a three-way primary with Representatives Barbara Lee and Katie Porter. Pelosi has endorsed Schiff in the primary, and sources told Politico they thought the arrangement could be to prevent Governor Gavin Newsom from appointing Lee to fill the seat.

Newsom has promised to nominate a black woman to the senate and Lee fits in.

A Feinstein spokesperson said Prowda was not paid a salary for her role.

Nancy Corinne and Senator Feinstein have been friends for decades. Nancy Corinne has supported her recovery from her shingles,” Bennett explained in a statement to DailyMail.com.

Speaker Emerita Pelosi and Senator Feinstein have been friends since long before they served in Congress – and their friendship is personal, not political. Anyone who knows Senator Feinstein knows that her senate service is entirely her own decision, and Speaker Emerita Pelosi would never suggest otherwise.”

A well-known source told DailyMail.com that the Pelosi children grew up across the street from Feinstein in San Francisco and denied that Prowda’s help was in any way related to her mother’s political efforts to become king.

Schiff, who as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee investigated the now-debunked conspiracy theory that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, has already raised $15 million for a possible election race.

California has a jungle primary, meaning the top two winners, regardless of party, advance to the general election.

That would see the heavily Democratic state running with two Democrats in the November 2024 election.

A longtime ally of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Feinstein has served as a senator for the Golden State since 1992 and is the oldest senator in the chamber.

She has gradually moved away from several senior positions in recent years.

In 2020, she said she would not serve as the top Democrat on the judicial panel after criticism from liberals over her handling of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation.

Fiercely independent, she also famously clashed with the Obama administration over her refusal to keep secret intelligence reports about the US military’s use of torture.

Meanwhile, Feinstein’s office has admitted that the 89-year-old has contracted a brain infection, despite her own insistence that she was just battling the flu.

The New York Times reported Thursday that Dianne Feinstein, 89, has been diagnosed with vision and balance disorders, as well as facial paralysis known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome, in addition to encephalitis, a brain infection.

‘It was a very bad flu. I’m doing better, thank you,” Feinstein initially said of her condition.

The senator’s own office countered and confirmed it CNN later Thursday. It’s unclear if Feinstein wanted to mislead reporters she spoke to about the flu, or if she’s just too old and frail to remember what happened.

After confirming her diagnosis included Ramsay Hunt syndrome and encephalitis, a spokesperson said: “While the encephalitis resolved on its own shortly after she was released from hospital in March, she still has complications from Ramsay Hunt syndrome.”

That statement could indicate an escalation in efforts to force Feinstein out of her Senate seat, with sources claiming she is resisting requests to leave.

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a known complication of shingles, from which Feinstein recovered, leaving Democrats one vote short in the Senate.

It causes facial paralysis, the effects of which appear visible in recent photos of a very frail-looking Feinstein.

The virus also caused a previously unreported case of encephalitis that leaves patients with persistent memory or language problems, sleep disturbances, bouts of confusion, mood disturbances, headaches and difficulty walking.

Feinstein, a Democrat who has represented California since 1992, is due to step down when her sixth and final term ends next year.

The legislator is also known to suffer from vision and balance problems, and aides often wheel her around the Senate Building in a wheelchair.

During her months-long absence, she received increasing calls to resign, particularly from other California Democrats and the editors of the New York Times.

But her cognitive abilities and health have been in question for months after she missed a series of important Senate votes.

She also seemed confused in public, sometimes yelling at aides as she struggled to keep up with the voices in the upstairs room.

Her return to work earlier this month also restored the Democrats’ 51-49 majority in the Senate, increasing the likelihood of Democratic-backed bills getting a stamp.

“My doctors have advised me to work a lighter schedule when I return to the Senate,” Feinstein said last month. “I hope those problems will go away as I continue to recover.”

She caused confusion in her first Senate appearance in nearly three months by claiming she was there all the time.

‘No, I’ve been here. I voted,” the 89-year-old told reporters when they asked how she felt and what her colleagues thought of her return. ‘Please. You either know it or you don’t,” she added bizarrely.

She then returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, arriving almost 90 minutes late and after some judicial candidates had already been voted on.

She received a standing ovation from both Republicans and Democrats on the panel when she joined them after being away due to health concerns.