Nancy Pelosi says she will not run for House Minority Leader and leaves the playing field to the younger Democrats.

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Well, we'd have fun farewell to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. In the next term of Congress, she will not be standing for House Minority Leader, which makes sense. She is the only octogenarian to actually be leaving her job at this point in time. And for that, she gets credit. She's not got a lot of credit for being a good force in American public life.

She was good at vote counting. I will say that for Nancy Pelosi. She was very good at keeping

her caucus in line. And if you look at sort of the periods of Nancy Pelosi's leadership,

what you see is that there are a few sort of distinct periods in Nancy Pelosi's leadership.

First, she became a member of the DNC in 1976 and became

chair of the California Democratic Party in 1981. She joined Congress in 1987. It wasn't until 2002 that

she became Housewhip and then minority leader in 2003 while George W. Bush was president of the

United States. She was speaker twice from 2007 to 2011 and then then again, from 2018 to 2022.

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