Nancy Pelosi, a representative of the Democratic House of Representatives who served as speaker, announced that she will retire from Congress, two years after leading the house.
The decision marks the end of an adversarial 20-term congressional career that has seen Pelosi rise to the top of American politics. A force on Capitol Hill for decades, he was a central figure in the major legislative achievements of the presidencies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
“I am rooting for our city and our country around the world with patriotism and pride,” he said in a video released Thursday morning. “My housemates say to me all the time, regardless of the title they give me, there is no greater honor for the house and to say, ‘I told the people of San Francisco.'”
Although no longer in leadership, the 85-year-old remains an extremely influential figure among Democrats, quietly advising his party as they navigate Trump’s second term. In 2024, he played a key role in withdrawing from the priesthood race after a disastrous performance in the debate against Trump.
Pelosi’s decision comes amid an intra-party reckoning among its senior leaders. In 2022, he left his role as Democratic Leader of the house, declaring that “the time has come for a new generation to lead the democratic caucus that I respect so much”. But he chose to stay at home, where the Democrats gave him the title of “speaker Terepita”.
Biden’s decline in office, and his subsequent withdrawal from the campaign, heightened concerns about age and term limits. Many long-serving Democrats are facing challenges from changes in young men who are changing the generation and Jerry Nadler in New York.
Pelosi’s announcement comes days after Californians approved Proposition 50, a measure intended to counter Trump’s measures in Texas and other Texas Red Stops. Pelosi is a prominent Democratic supporter of the plan and declined to weigh in on her future until after Tuesday’s vote.
Pelosi’s departure from the race, long anticipated, will jolt the primary fight for a rare open Democratic seat in the heart of San Francisco she has occupied in Congress since 1987. Two Democrats have already jumped into the race and more will likely join.
Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech executive and the first chief of staff of Kongayroman Alexandria Ocasio-Corrapment imposed by the Silicon establishment imposed by the Silicon establishment that he can use to establish the Party and the Trump administration. Last month, Senator Scott Wiener announced he would also run for the seat, despite previously saying he would wait for Pelosi to retire.
Pelosi, the first woman to use the Gavels of the Speaker, will leave Washington as one of the most transformative figures in the modern history of Congress and as a trailblazer who expands the boundaries of women to women in American politics.
Born into a wealthy family in Baltimore – her father a Congressman and later Mayor – Pelosi relied on her father before moving on to her own path. After years as a stay-at-home mom, she ran to represent San Francisco in a special election at age 47 — and won. During the years that he has been the driving force behind the Democratic Caucus, a legislative tactician, the master voted-counter and the most children have helped prepare him to prepare a fierce caucus.
To her detractors, Pelosi came to be the ambassador of the “San Francisco Liberal” – a symbol of the coastal elite and the democratic extreme. Among his allies, he was simply the most effective legislative general of his generation.
He helped the election of the Democratic Marshal of George Bush’s plan to deprive the Social security of Iraq, which eventually helped him attack the Profile in 2006 and raise the speech in 2007.
As the speaker, Pelosi guided the Democrats in the House during the crisis of Barack Obama’s health care – the passage of Barack Obama’s care measures in 2010 – the passage of Barack Obama’s care measures – the passage of Barack Obama’s care measures – the passage of Barack Obama’s care measures – the passage of Barack Obama’s care measures – progress in Class Class and infrastructure under President Biden.
His tenacity – and self-confidence – is legendary. “I have no doubt that if I decided to run, I would win,” Pelosi told CNN in a televised interview earlier this week. “That’s not a question.”
Although he lost the Gavel after the 2010 Midterm Wipeout, when some in his Caucus urged him to step up, he ran again and won. Eight years later, she is speaking again, navigating a divided caucus that includes a historic class of Democratic women and new progressive voices who won’t clash with the Party’s leadership.
For more than two decades, Pelosi has become one of the most respected figures in Republican politics, targeted in attack ads that have attacked all Democratic administrations. Before the 2022 Midterm elections, Bitriol broke into violence, when a hammer dealer attacked them in San Francisco and later said he planned to kidnap Pelosi and interrogate her.
Pelosi has a deep relationship with Trump, and their outbursts have produced some of the most intractable images of her campaign — and the modern partisan side of Washington.
After initially resisting calls to impeach Trump, he relented and finally led his first impeachment in 2019. He revealed that he inserted a copy of his state of the union into the union. The Republicans accused him, but he defended his actions, calling the document a “Manifesto of errors”.
Pelosi was ousted from the floor of the house when rioters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, after a week of campaigning by leading to Biden’s victory. From a safe location in Fort Mcnair, Pelosi pressured members of Congress to return to the Capitol to continue the attack without success.
He then took the house through a second impeachment and later convened a democratically led Select Committee to Investigate the Attack. However, Republicans continue to argue that Pelosi, as speaker, is responsible for security failures in the Capitol that day even though the Speaker of the House will not be in charge of Capitol security.