Nancy Pelosi to Retire

Nancy Pelosi has decided to not seek re-election after her current term. Fox News Radio's Eben Brown joins us with the details. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know if there is a more polarizing name
than Nancy Pelosi when it comes to politics. Yesterday the
bombshell that she will not seek re election on the story.
Evan Brown with Box News Radio, thanks for doing this today.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Talk to us a little bit about this news and
how it was received. Obviously, Republicans are cheering. Are Democrats
lamenting this? Or is it time for her to move
on from the party.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I think it depends on which Democrat you speak to,
you'll get some different answers. Those who have been around
a bit longer are heaping a lot of praise on
the congresswoman because she has been the leader of the
party for decades, really in at least in the House
of Representatives, right she was speaker twice, she was Minority

(00:55):
leader in between, and she, I would say, for many, many,
many years, she was perhaps the most powerful woman in America,
being uh to essentially dictate what the Congress was going
to do. Here's something that's interesting, though, You know, the

(01:18):
people who've been around longer, the older generation of Democratic
congressmen and congresswomen, are giving her praise. The youngers are,
i think being respectful but perhaps happy to see her go.
When Nancy Pelosi was first elected to the Congress, she
represented a new, further left type of Democrat than what

(01:41):
was more traditional. I'm going to bring up a name here.
You may remember it. Lloyd Benston, Yeah, Democrat, Congressman of
Texas right and he was even a running mate from
Mike to Caucus. That's how far back i'm reaching here.

(02:02):
But he was quite the right of center Democrat that
really doesn't exist anymore. The closest we might have is
John Fetterman, and I wouldn't even put him right of center.
But she kind of came along with the sort of
the Clinton generation and represented a further left wing of

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the party that was emerging. Nowadays, she's perhaps the most
centrist of the Democrats, where the emerging far left block
led by let's say, Alexandria Casio Cortez is emerging, is
more powerful, more influential, and that is where perhaps the

(02:45):
next generation of Democratic Party leaders may come from. And
that has polarized Republicans obviously, and I think in some
ways it's caused the Democrats to lose some support and
the Republicans to gain more support. But but if the if,
the if this far left contingent of the Democratic Party

(03:08):
is able to learn from Nancy Pelosi and how to
run the party. Uh, there might be someone else who
emerges that has that kind of enduring and tenure and power.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
That is Evan Brown with Fox News Radio. Thank you
for your time this morning.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're welcome.