Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) introduced Friday that she’s going to search reelection in 2024, aiming to extend her historic tenure within the U.S. Home of Representatives after greater than 36 years.
Pelosi, 83, relinquished her management put up earlier this yr, after turning into the primary feminine Home speaker in 2007.
A statement posted to social media referenced her dwelling metropolis of San Francisco’s continued financial restoration efforts following the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic: “Now greater than ever our Metropolis wants us to advance San Francisco values and additional our restoration. Our nation wants America to indicate the world that our flag continues to be there, with liberty and justice for ALL.”
She added: “That’s the reason I’m operating for reelection — and respectfully ask on your vote.”
In an interview with Politico final month, Pelosi hinted at a reelection bid by pointing to the variety of feminine veteran California Democrats who’re retiring or have already retired from Congress: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, former Sen. Barbara Boxer and former Rep. Jackie Speier.
“I haven’t been pondering a lot about it — but,” she mentioned within the interview, which was printed this week.
Boxer sympathized along with her colleague, telling Politico: “It’s actually onerous to go away a job you’re keen on and are nice at.”
She added, “If I’m Nancy, it’s not straightforward.”
Pelosi’s announcement, nonetheless, comes as voters have signaled concern in regards to the advancing age of the nation’s management in Washington.
Final week, Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) skilled a second freezing episode after a reporter requested him about his personal reelection plans for 2026. The same incident had occurred in entrance of stories cameras in late July.
Nevertheless, McConnell, 81, indicated this week that he’s not planning on stepping down earlier than his time period is up.
Neither is 90-year-old Feinstein, regardless of well being issues which have raised eyebrows, though her workplace did announce earlier this yr that she is not going to search reelection in 2024.
Polling has proven that President Joe Biden’s age, 80, can be a problem of concern for some voters as he gears as much as run for a second presidential time period subsequent yr. At 77, Biden’s potential Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, shouldn’t be a younger man, both.
Other than providing jokes, Biden has advised voters to look to his document in workplace as proof of his health, saying, “Watch me.”