Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is shooing off talk of Democrat primary challengers for 2026, but the reality is she’s likelier to retire in time to set up her daughter Christine Pelosi’s potential candidacy.
“I think she’s going to retire, and it’s a moot point,” longtime San Francisco consultant Eric Jaye, who worked on Pelosi’s first campaign, told The New York Times. “I seriously doubt she would want her legacy, as stellar as it is, tarnished by having her last race needing to be a knockout, drag-out, negative fight with a representative of the next generation of leaders.”
That would be Saikat Chakrabarti, who worked on the 2016 presidential campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Chakrabarti also helped bring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., out from behind a bar to become one of the most powerful House Democrat figures in Congress as her 2018 campaign manager.
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