According to CNN, Pelosi is planning to run for reelection, and sources familiar with her stance are signaling that she isn’t ruling out possibly staying in leadership after 2022, even though the lawmaker has stated that her intention is to leave as the top House Democrat.
She is planning to file and run for reelection in her San Francisco district next year. She wishes to make her decision about staying in Congress after the elections. She is expected to win an 18th full term.
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Democrats have mixed feelings about Pelosi staying or leaving after 2022. On the one hand, many House Democrats want Pelosi to pave the way for younger leadership. On the other hand, many fear that the party’s infighting, which has escalated in recent months over President Joe Biden’s legislative priorities, will overshadow fighting House Republicans.
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"Where do we go from here?" one member said, expressing the stress. "I don't know."
The House Democratic Caucus generally perceives Pelosi as a leader who “still commands respect and no small measure of fear."
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In a series of interviews with key aides and more than two dozen House Democratic members, a portrait emerges of a leader who still commands respect, and no small measure of fear, within her caucus. She shepherded Biden's Covid-19 rescue plan last spring and his massive infrastructure plan this fall and then delivered the most transformative social spending program in generations through her chamber. Each one could be a capstone to an already historic career.
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She may be losing her grip on the caucus as there are members less concerned with loyalty and willing to sabotage negotiations for a social media hit, CNN notes, which is why she had to repeatedly reschedule votes over the last few months.
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CNN goes on to note that "admirers and detractors both confess to a sense of dread about what things will be like after Pelosi leaves," and, regarding Pelosi’s grip on the caucus, that "whoever comes after her won't have anywhere near that control."
A number of caucus members told CNN that Pelosi hasn’t prepared the caucus for after she leaves Congress.
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