Pelosi: Democrats ‘Have A Responsibility To Seek Common Ground’

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi celebrates at a midterm election night party hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Tuesda

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Updated at 2:37 p.m. ET

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., offered an olive branch to President Trump and congressional Republicans, just hours after Democrats took back control of the House of Representatives.

The congressional leader said that the new Democratic House majority will seek bipartisanship with Republicans, a comment that echoed what Trump himself had conveyed in his own postelection press conference.