Chamber member Nancy Pelosi on Thursday suggested that she would still be the most powerful elected woman in American politics, even as California sen. Kamala Harris is elected in November.
During an interview with The Washington Post, Pelosi was asked about Harris’ history-making moment on Wednesday night, when she became the first Black and Indian American woman to accept the nomination of a vice president of a major party.
Although Pelosi praised her as a “personification of the American dream” and “a major supporter of our constitution,” she implied that Harris, 55, may not have much power as vice president.
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“Well, I’m not sure how powerful the vice president is,” Pelosi said during the interview. ‘But nonetheless …. No, that will depend on the president. And I’m sure Joe Biden will extend the same power to Kamala Harris as President Obama extended him. “
She went on to say, “But that’s all derivative of the President of the United States. So I hope that will be the case and I can just do my job as a speaker and enjoy the idea that there’s a vice “President is a woman, a woman of color.”
Pelosi has more than once lamented the fact that no woman has been elected president.
“My disappointment is that every time I am introduced as the most powerful woman in American history, it breaks my heart because I think we should have a president,” she told the Washington Post in March.
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Pelosi is the first and only woman to have served as Speaker of the House of Commons, making her the most powerful elected woman in the country. She held the position from 2007 to 2011 and was re-elected in 2019 after Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives.
In 2019, Harris joined Pelosi’s defense after New York reporter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the speaker of “persistently singling out newly elected women of color.”
“That’s not my experience with Nancy Pelosi,” Harris said at the time during an interview with “The Breakfast Club,” a New York-based radio program. “And I have known her and worked with her for years. I have known her that she is very respectful of women of color and very supportive of her.”
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Pelosi’s remarks came a day after she spoke at the Democratic National Convention, in which she portrayed President Trump as an enemy of women, saying she witnessed “Donald Trump’s respect for facts, working families and for women in the United States. t particular – disrespect written in his policy towards our health and our rights, not just his attitudes and behavior.
“But we know what he does not – that if women succeed, America will succeed,” she added.
