Nancy Pelosi Retains House Minority Leadership Position

After what many described as a long-shot effort by Democratic representative Tim Ryan of Ohio to unseat Nancy Pelosi as House minority leader, the results of the Democrat secret ballots are in and reveal that, indeed, he fell well short. Alas, it seems as though only 63 House Democrats learned anything from the 2016 Presidential election cycle.
Of course, Ryan launched his bid to unseat Pelosi based largely on the premise that Rust Belt voters in the Midwest abandoned the democratic party in 2016 precisely because of the elitism exhibited by the San Francisco liberal. While Pelosi is well known for her ability to raise substantial amounts of cash for the democratic party, $141 million in the past cycle alone according to The Hill, Ryan has argued that electing a House leader with a broader appeal is far more important.
While Ryan likely drew support from a host of young House democrats who have been prevented from rising up the leadership ranks by a stagnant group of Pelosi loyalists, clearly it wasn’t enough to tip the scales in his favor.
Well, House democrats passed her now we’ll wait and see if they like her.