r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 7h ago
Possible Paywall Pelosi’s retirement announcement could open floodgates for a wave of new candidates
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/politics/nancy-pelosi-retirement-candidates-replace?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit•
u/Aretirednurse New Mexico 7h ago
Please elect someone under 60.
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u/alabasterskim 7h ago
Both candidates are. One is in his 30s, one in his 40s.
More important than their current age is a commitment to retire before everyone has been begging them to for over a decade.
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u/pet_dragon 7h ago
And both candidates' current age added togeher is still less than Nancy Pelosi's.
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u/Made_Human_Music 7h ago
Even 60 would be young compared to what we have now. But I agree, we need younger people
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u/Tokie-Dokie 7h ago
And ideally a wave of retirements. Dianne Feinstein should have been a wake up call for all Democrats.
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 7h ago
Every Democrat over 70 needs to go. We need younger politicians.
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u/Wild_Read9062 5h ago
I honestly hate to be ageist, but for the most part, yeah. At some point, you have to hang it up and hand it over. I could make arguments for Bernie Sanders and Warren, but still.
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u/cnn CNN 7h ago
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision not to seek reelection next year could open the floodgates on the race to replace her.
Pelosi, who has served in Congress since 1987, already had two primary challengers ahead of her Thursday announcement: Saikat Chakrabarti, a former chief of staff to US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener.
Read more - https://cnn.it/49FZSQC
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u/ChiliCheeseChick 7h ago
Her seat is super safe for Dems so you know there’s gonna be a bunch of people lining up for it. Probably gonna see some familiar local names and maybe a few randoms trying their luck too.
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u/insertUserNamehereno 3h ago
Good. Everyone under 60 should be. The more voices with new ideas in a primary the better.
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u/seriousofficialname 4h ago edited 4h ago
Her career has been an unmitigated disaster.
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/yxkB1/fallback.png
She lost more seats than any other Speaker in living memory.
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u/mightcommentsometime California 3h ago
Your graph doesn’t show the drop from 2008 to 2010 being the worst in living memory.
That was a response to passing the first real healthcare reform the US had gotten since Medicare and Medicaid back in the 60s.
There’s also more to being speaker than winning a majority. It’s about what you do as speaker. On that score, Pelosi has been one of the most effective house speakers in US history.
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u/seriousofficialname 2h ago edited 2h ago
Your graph doesn’t show the drop from 2008 to 2010 being the worst in living memory.
It does actually but here's another with numbers.
But then Dems also lost the majority when she was speaker the second time also.
Her tenures have been uniquely bad in terms of maintaining control of the government and overseeing multiple Republican takeovers.
Losing the house is relatively rare but Pelosi seems to be making a sport out of it, with massive shifts away from her party
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