When the dam of discontented Democrats asking Joe Biden to quit the campaign broke last week, Rep. Pelosi was standing at the floodgates.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi applauds as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Feb. 7, 2023. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin via Reuters
Longtime allies and observers of the former House speaker say it shouldn’t. This, they say, is who Pelosi has always been. “Cold-blooded,” or some synonym of the term, comes up a lot when discussing Pelosi’s political reputation. It’s usually meant as a compliment. It’s a term that Pelosi has But coming of age as a woman in the 1960s, Pelosi’s political career was much less of a sure thing. All the more so when she married Paul Pelosi, losing her politically prized last name, and then moved with him to San Francisco, a town where “D’Alesandro” didn’t open many doors anyway.
“She had the disadvantage in some ways of being a very attractive, wealthy San Franciscan,” said Lawrence, which some in the city’s male-dominated political class took to mean that she was a lightweight. “I don’t think that lasted very long,” he said. An independently wealthy resident of Pacific Heights who was at home in some circles where it was impolite to mention Phillip’s name, Pelosi seemed an odd choice. But this daughter of one congressman from Baltimore and sister of another was a partisan, liberal Democrat to her core.
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