Nancy Pelosi announces retirement after nearly 4 decades in Congress
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday that she will not seek re-election after nearly four decades serving in Congress.
Pelosi was first elected to the House in 1987 to represent California and eventually became the first female speaker of the House. Pelosi served as speaker from 2007 to 2011 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and again from 2019 to 2023 under Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
A successor has not been named.
"For decades, I've cherished the privilege of representing our magnificent city in the United States Congress," Pelosi said in a video posted on X.
"That is why I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be the first to know," Pelosi said. "I will not be seeking re-election to Congress."
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Although she has announced she will step aside after this term, a successor has not been named to run to represent California's 11th District.
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"With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative," Pelosi said.
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The left’s vile rhetoric just keeps getting darker
Democrats are learning all the wrong lessons from where their vile rhetoric has gotten them — and Nancy Pelosi’s latest outburst is only the latest proof.
In a recent CNN interview, Pelosi called Donald Trump “a vile creature” and “the worst thing on the face of the earth," before backing up her claim with virtually nothing.
“He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the earth, but anyway,” Pelosi told the interviewer.
“You think he’s the worst thing on the face of the earth?” the interviewer asked.
“Yeah, I do, because he’s the president of the United States, and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States,” Pelosi replied.
“Really, Nancy? You couldn’t think of one single solitary thing that’s worse than a president who believes in things like freedom and liberty, and, you know, smaller government and lower taxes? That’s really the worst thing in the world to you?” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales responds on "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered."
“These people are so incredible in their myopic thinking. I really wonder how they’re going to cope when Donald Trump is out of politics,” she adds.
Pelosi’s assertion that Donald Trump is “the worst thing on the face of the earth” is the kind of rhetoric that has led many Democrats to speak similarly to any Republican voter or official, as is evidenced in one recent case out of Montana.
After voting for Trump’s big, beautiful bill, freshman Senator of Montana Tim Sheehy (R) received an alarming voicemail from Haley McKnight, a woman running for the Helena city commission.
“I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away health care for 17 million Americans. And I hope you’re really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can’t even treat you for it,” McKnight said in the warm, friendly voicemail.
“I hope that you die in the street like a dog. One day, you’re going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. I hope you never manage to get a boner ever again. You are the worst piece of s**t I’ve ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at, and you don’t serve Montanans. You serve your own private interests,” she continued.
“God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets, because I will make you regret it. F**k you. I hope you die,” she added, for good measure.
Apparently, McKnight doubled down when asked about the voicemail, calling it justifiable rage.
“Did she have this all mapped out on a piece of paper, or did she just fly in there blind?” Gonzales asks, shocked.
“This woman is running for office,” she adds.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the arrest of federal ICE agents for doing their jobs — and it did not go unnoticed by the Trump administration.
Rep. Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed in a statement earlier this week that local police could “arrest federal agents if they break California law.”
“Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law, and if they are convicted, the president cannot pardon them,” Pelosi said in a statement on October 23.
Pelosi also wrote in a post on X: “A mass deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area is an appalling abuse of law enforcement power. The people of San Francisco stand with our patriotic immigrants who are the constant reinvigoration of America. We will not be intimidated by politically motivated fear tactics.”
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey’s father and BlazeTV contributor Ron Simmons could not be more thrilled with the response her comments inspired.
“That statement is so inappropriate and, in some ways, factually incorrect that it’s just appalling,” Simmons says, noting that Attorney General Pam Bondi did not let Pelosi’s comments slide.
Bondi responded to Pelosi’s nonsensical statements on Fox News, explaining that “Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. So did Brooke Jenkins, that DA in San Francisco.”
“We told them, ‘Preserve your emails. Preserve everything you have on this topic because if you are telling people to arrest our ICE officers, our federal agents, you cannot do that. You’re impeding an investigation. And we will charge them. If they think I won’t, they have not met me, because we will charge them if they are violating the law,” she added.
Simmons couldn’t be happier with Bondi’s response.
“I say hooray. Thank goodness. Thank goodness that they’re willing to do that,” he says, pointing out that Blanche went on in his letter to write, “Any attempts to arrest or interfere with federal agents is illegal and futile.”
“So, I hope that they’ll enforce that to the fullest extent of the law. All these men and women are trying to do is carry out their responsibilities that are passed down from the leaders of the executive branch,” Simmons says.
“And again, they’re not deporting U.S. citizens, and they’re focusing primarily on those that have committed crimes here in the U.S. or at home,” he continues.
“So ... it's just sickening,” he says, adding, “and almost, in my opinion, what some of these people are trying to do is on the border of treasonous. When you’re trying to impede federal law being upheld, I don’t know what else there could be. I mean, you become almost an enemy of the state.”
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Video shows Nancy Pelosi exploding with fury at reporter over Jan. 6 claims: 'SHUT UP!'
Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California was caught on video snapping angrily at a reporter who pressed her about her acts during the Jan. 6 protests at the U.S. Capitol.
The former House speaker was walking out of the Capitol building on Wednesday when a reporter from Mike Lindell of My Pillow fame confronted her.
'Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you're a serious journalist?'
"Congresswoman Pelosi, are you at all concerned that the new January 6 committee will find you liable for that day?" Alison Steinberg asked. "Are you at all concerned about the new January 6 committee finding you liable for that day? Why did you refuse the National Guard on January 6?"
"Shut up!" Pelosi blurted out.
"I did not refuse the National Guard. The president didn't send it," she added. "Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you're a serious journalist?"
Pelosi has been accused of failing to allow the National Guard to respond to the Jan. 6 protests after a video recorded by her daughter on that day showed her talking about the decision.
"We have responsibility, Terri. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there — and we should have," said Pelosi to her chief of staff, Terri McCullough, on the recording released by HBO in 2024.
"This is ridiculous. You're gonna ask me in the middle of the thing, when they've already breached the inaugural stuff, 'Should we call the Capitol Police?' I mean, the National Guard. Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?" she added.
McCullough says that they believed there were "sufficient" resources to handle protesters.
"It's not a question of how they had — they don't know," Pelosi replied. "They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more."
Critics have used the footage to accuse Pelosi of falsely claiming President Donald Trump was to blame for the lack of National Guard resources, though she has denied the allegations.
"Numerous independent fact-checkers have confirmed again and again that Speaker Pelosi did not plan her own assassination on January 6," a spokesperson for Pelosi said in June.
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"As the footage in its entirety plainly shows, Speaker Pelosi sprang into action in response to the attack on the Capitol — mobilizing the defense of the Capitol, urging the administration to deploy the National Guard, and coordinating the continuity of government," the spokesperson continued. "Cherry-picked, out-of-context clips do not change the fact that the Speaker of the House is not in charge of the security of the Capitol Complex — on January 6 or any other day of the week."
However, as many as 20,000 National Guard troops were authorized by Trump for duty on Jan. 6, but Democratic D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser rejected the offer one day before the protests.
The LindellTV account mocked Pelosi for her reaction.
"No answer. Just insults. This is how the democratic so called Speaker of 'the people' treats the press when they don’t fall in line," the post reads. "@SpeakerPelosi's meltdown says everything. What is she trying to hide?"
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