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After being elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives for the fourth time, Nancy Pelosi made headlines again. This is a new chapter in his nearly 50-year political career as a Democrat, perhaps his greatest challenge.
With Kamala Harris (He Jinli) poised to become America’s first female vice president, Pelosi will no longer carry the aura of the most powerful woman in American politics.
However, the 80-year-old Speaker of the House of Representatives will play a key role in moving the new president’s affairs forward.
This means there is no time to think about personal mistakes in the November election: She is in charge of a shrinking majority in the House of Representatives and, as president, narrowly won re-election after some fellow Democrats voted. for treason.
On the contrary, in her new term, she must display all of Pelosi’s qualities that allow her to unite supporters and critics: her acumen on legislative matters, her ability to unite a conflicting party at a critical moment; And his instinct for the political scene (I’ll talk about the ironic applause later).
Born into a political family
Republicans often portray Pelosi as a “San Francisco liberal,” obsessed with big government and very leftist on social issues.
But it actually came from the other side of this continent, from a more pragmatic political atmosphere.
He was raised in a political world and hails from Baltimore, a city on Maryland’s east coast with tough folklore. She is the youngest of seven children in the family. His father is the mayor of the city.
He went to college in nearby Washington state, where he met financier Paul Pelosi (Paul Pelosi) and eventually got married.
They first moved to Manhattan, then to San Francisco (San Francisco), and Ms. Pelosi was a homemaker at first.
She gave birth to five children in six years: four daughters and one son.
The start of a great business
In 1976, he began to get involved in politics, using his native family connections to help California Governor Jerry Brown (Jerry Brown) win the Maryland primary in the presidential election.
He made his way to the state Democratic Party and eventually ranked first in the state party and won a seat in the National Assembly in 1988.
In the House of Representatives, he once again made his own efforts to move forward. Since she is one of the representatives in a city with a large gay community, she made funding AIDS research a top priority.
In 2001, she ran for elections as a minority supervisor in the House of Representatives. That is the person in charge of counting the votes, and the second place in the House of Representatives of the party. She won by a narrow margin.
The following year, she was promoted to minority leader, which meant that she was the party leader in the House of Representatives, but her party was a minority.
Reach the top
When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Pelosi was one of the best known and most publicly opposed opponents.
This position paid off in 2006, when Democrats won control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years.
Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives by her party, becoming the first woman in US history to hold this position.
Four years later, the Democrats lost control of the House of Commons.
Despite this setback, Pelosi defeated several challenges on her own front and eventually reclaimed the orators hammer as the leader of the comeback party in 2018.
Speaker duties
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is a Congressional office detailed in the United States Constitution. He is the second heir to the presidency, just behind the vice president.
He reflects the importance of this position in his large office on Capitol Hill, which has its own balcony overlooking the Washington Monument.
The majority party in the House of Representatives basically has unlimited control over the legislative process.
The speaker, her deputies and the committee chairs decide which bills will be considered and voted on. They set the agenda and determine the rules of the debate.
If a female speaker can line the majority of the seats in her party, the legislative process in the House of Representatives can work as well as a fine tuned machine.
From 2009 to 2011, the Pelosi House of Representatives implemented a $ 840 billion economic stimulus package in response to the 2008 economic collapse.
He also tried to pass the House of Representatives to push the Affordable Care Act to the Office of the President, which was a historic task during the Barack Obama presidency.
Pelosi’s most important moment
When he returned to the seat of Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2018, he faced a very different situation.
Right now, she is already a target for Republicans to voice their discontent. In their eyes, Pelosi represents the coastal elites who promote big spending and radical reforms.
In the 2018 midterm elections, incumbent Republican David Brat mentioned Nancy Pelosi and her “liberal agenda” 21 times in a debate.
This move infuriated him and his party: Democrats won a historic landslide victory in the House of Representatives.
At this point, Pelosi already has two major roadblocks, President Trump and astute Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Mitch McConnell). No bill passed by his party in the House of Representatives can go one step further.
In terms of outreach, his most critical moment was the ironic “#PelosiClap (applause from Pelosi)” that he delivered during Trump’s State of the Union address a month after taking office. It is still a popular GIF on the Internet.
The most controversial thing is that that same night he harshly criticized Trump’s speech in front of the television cameras. After being accused of disrespect, she later defended her actions and called Trump’s speech a “manifesto of falsehoods.”
Facing Trump
Pelosi was unwilling to lead the impeachment of a US president for the third time.
But as more and more questions arose about Trump’s actions in Ukraine in 2019, he finally said that this is an indispensable abuse of power.
Trump was accused of exerting pressure on Ukraine to unearth black material on Joe Biden and of using military aid as a means of manipulation, but these charges were cleared by the Republican-controlled Senate.
Those in his party who called for his impeachment in 2018 have been shocked by his confrontation with President Trump.
In addition to some fierce conversations in the Oval Office, he also won several important laws against Trump, including funding the border wall and the government shutdown.
Weak victory
In 2020, expectations that the Democratic Party will further expand its lead in the House of Representatives are high. But they eventually lost a few seats in parliament, more than ten.
Due to the presence of Trump, they have a card that the Republicans can win, so they have always been optimistic that they can take advantage of the overwhelming victory of 2018.
But this loss will put Pelosi in more difficulty, because she has yet to continue to win the favor of the left in her party.
BBC reporter Anthony Zurcher said the next term may bring him the biggest political test to date.
“He must find a way to turn his weak majority seat into a sustained force of action, in the hope that Democrats will retake the Senate on Tuesday or convince a small number of moderate Republicans to form a coalition in Congress that can come up with an agreement”.
“Pelosi is rarely instigated in parliamentary proceedings, and her ability to maintain unity within the party is unmatched, whether on the left or center.”
“If you want to help get Joe Biden’s new administration off to a successful start, you have to keep these things going and the fault tolerance rate will be small.