WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats seem ready to give House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the rest of their House leadership team another two years at the helm, even though the party lost seats in this month’s elections.
House Democrats were meeting privately Tuesday to pick their leaders.
By all accounts, Pelosi -a Californian who served four years as the first female House speaker – will continue leading the chamber’s Democrats in the Congress that meets in January. So will Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, and the party’s other major leaders.
There were no known challengers to any top leaders. On Monday, Pelosi announced her recommendations for middle-tier leadership posts, saying she was doing so “since I have no opponents.”
Pelosi, 74, is deeply popular with liberals. Countless Republican campaign ads have sought to make her their symbol of a profligate government that doesn’t know how to say no to spending proposals or interest groups.