Democratic kingmaker Nancy Pelosi has come to be singled out as the main force behind President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from his re-election campaign, a claim she refuses to dignify too much.
Although Pelosi no longer wields the House speaker’s gavel, her absence has done little to stifle her power within the party. She is not only the first female House speaker, but also one of the most talented political strategists of her generation.
POLITICO senior political columnist and political bureau chief Jonathan Martin sat down with the president emeritus at the CNN-POLITICO Grill on the final day of the Democratic National Convention.
JMart and Pelosi covered which state Pelosi thinks is key to taking back the House; how a speaker, Kamala Harris, would need to govern; that time the party transcended heritage in its snub of a New York Republican; her relationship with her successor Hakeem Jeffries and what she really thinks of that DIY pin of her image that circulated around the convention.