If Pelosi Returns As Speaker, So Would The GOP Playbook Against Her

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November 28th, 2018

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives for a news conference earlier this month as some disgruntled Democrats are pledging to oppose her ascent to the speakership in the new 116th Congress.

J. Scott Applewhite / AP

For nearly a decade, Nancy Pelosi was the GOP’s not-so-secret weapon.

Tying a congressional candidate to the Democratic leader and raising the specter of another would-be speakership was a Republican’s silver bullet for much of the past decade.

But in 2018, that strategy failed — badly. Democrats flipped control of the House and are on pace to pick up as many as 40 seats with their biggest popular-vote margin since the Watergate scandal, and Pelosi is hoping to become speaker of the House again as her fellow Democrats take a first vote Wednesday.

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