Nancy Pelosi predicts Dems win House gavel back in '26, reflects on career and Jan. 6 attack

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Source: ABC News

December 28, 2025, 9:05 AM


Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confident that Democrats will re-take the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms and that Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will hold the speaker’s gavel.

“Hakeem Jeffries is ready, he's eloquent, he's respected by the members, he is a unifier,” Pelosi told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl during a new interview that aired Sunday on “This Week.”

“You have no doubt it'll be Hakeem Jeffries?” Karl asked. “None,” Pelosi said.

The California Democrat, who stepped down from the party’s House leadership in November 2022, announced in November that she would not run for reelection in 2026. With about year left in her term, the longtime Democratic leader and first female speaker of the House spoke to Karl in Washington about her career, her relationship with President Donald Trump, and offered advice for Democrats going forward.

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1. We may win, but Hakeem is not a wartime consigliari

Too tied to the status quo

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2. You still need someone experienced and knows the parliamentary procedures

and Rules, and who can maneuver through and around the obstacles, both from without and within.

He knows how to do "wartime" but has chosen not to rock that boat... at least yet.

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3. You confuse the title consigliari

Leader Jefferies is the Leader, the consigliari is the trusted council. There are plenty of logical choices for consigliari. Jim McGovern would be one such logical choice. He has been the rules committee chairman, and is now the ranking member a long serving member of the house, a liberal, a progressive, a pragmatist, a realist, a true student of the house.

The leader is not always the most knowledgeable of house procedure, but is the one that has his or her finger on the pulse of the Democratic Caucus with the ability to cc make difficult decisions and choices.