Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic survival guide

Democratic kingmaker Nancy Pelosi has travel to beryllium pegged arsenic the main unit down President Joe Biden’s determination to measurement down from his reelection run — a assertion that she refuses to dignify much.

While Pelosi nary longer wields the Speaker’s gavel, its lack hasn’t done overmuch to stifle her powerfulness wrong the party. She’s not lone the archetypal pistillate Speaker of the House but besides 1 of the astir talented governmental tacticians of her generation.

POLITICO’s elder governmental columnist and authorities bureau main Jonathan Martin sat down with the Speaker Emerita astatine the CNN-POLITICO Grill connected the past time of the Democratic National Convention.

JMart and Pelosi covered what authorities Pelosi believes to beryllium cardinal to retaking the House; however a President Kamala Harris would request to govern; that clip erstwhile enactment transcended practice successful her snub of a New York Republican; her narration with successor Hakeem Jeffries and what she truly thinks of that DIY pin of her representation that floated astir the convention.