Pelosi got a lot right in her time as leader of the Democratic caucus, but not everything.
When Nancy Pelosi was first elected leader of the House Democratic caucus, Barack Obama was still an Illinois state senator. As she steps down after twenty years at the helm, Hayes Brown writes that her tenure was "filled with a number of political victories, legislative accomplishments and historic firsts … including shepherding through Obamacare and her successes over the last two years under President Joe Biden." "Among these bright spots, though," he notes, "stands the failed impeachments of Donald Trump." First she rejected efforts to impeach of the former president over his pressuring of Ukraine's leader to provide dirt on Biden, before insisting that the effort be wrapped up within a few months. And after the Jan. 6 insurrection, Brown points out, "it took another week of pressure from inside her own caucus for Pelosi to give in and agree to move forward" with impeachment. By then, Republicans who might have voted against Trump had returned to the party line. Both times, Brown writes, "Pelosi wasn't willing to put the full weight of her office behind actually preventing Trump from ever holding office again." Read Hayes Brown's full analysis in your Friday MSNBC Daily.
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