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The Interview

Nancy Pelosi Insists the Election Was Not a Rebuke of the Democrats

The Interview

The New York Times

News, Society & Culture

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The former House Speaker reflects on Donald Trump’s victory, Kamala Harris’s candidacy and the future of the Democratic Party.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, this is the interview. I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

0:11.4

Perhaps no Democratic politician has been a greater antagonist of Donald Trump than Nancy Pelosi.

0:19.0

As the leader of the House Democrats between 2007 and 2023, she participated

0:24.4

in two Trump impeachments, memorably ripped up a copy of Trump's last state of the union after he

0:30.0

delivered it, and had an angry mob on January 6th hunting for her inside the Capitol. And over the

0:36.8

summer, it was Pelosi, who was reportedly a key voice in convincing Biden

0:41.4

to step down and give another Democrat a shot at beating Trump.

0:46.6

Well, we all know now how that story ended.

0:49.1

Vice President Kamala Harris suffered a stinging loss in Tuesday's election.

0:53.6

Republicans regained control of the Senate,

0:56.3

and even though the House has yet to be called for either party,

1:00.0

the strength of the GOP's turnout is undeniable,

1:03.5

as Republicans made inroads in heavily Democratic areas across the country.

1:08.8

Now, Trump is the president-elect,

1:13.1

with a sweeping mandate and promises to undo many of Pelosi and the Democrats' legislative achievements. In her first extended interview

1:19.5

since her party's defeat, Pelosi sat down with me at the Times offices in Washington, D.C. on

1:24.8

Thursday evening. You know, we're trying to win the House right now.

1:28.9

And she seemed to still be coming to terms with what had happened.

1:32.5

So, oh my gosh, it's wild.

1:35.8

Even as Democrats point fingers over who exactly is to blame,

1:40.5

Pelosi seemed unwilling to concede

1:42.4

that her party had been handed a crushing electoral rebuke,

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