Nancy Pelosi: NBC trying to 'undermine my prospects as speaker'
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Sunday accused NBC of trying to “undermine” her prospects of becoming speaker again if Democrats take back the House in November.
The California Democrat attacked the network during MSNBC’s “AM Joy” after NBC published a report citing 51 Democrats who said they would not support Mrs. Pelosi for speaker.
Guest host Jonathan Capehart asked Mrs. Pelosi whether she would be willing to “give up the gavel and give it to the new generation of leaders” if Democrats take back the majority in the midterm elections.
“Well first of all,” Mrs. Pelosi answered, “I know NBC has been on a jag of this as one of their priorities to undermine my prospects as speaker.
“But putting that aside, I have not asked one person for a vote, I haven’t asked a candidate or an incumbent for a vote,” she said. “What’s important, and I know better than anybody how important it is, [is] for us to win this election, because I see up close and personal what the Republicans and this president are doing.”
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