#nancy-pelosi

#nancy-pelosi

Was I the only journalist in America who thought President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech Tuesday was hard to watch?At least until he departed from his script and began sparring with the nation's rudest Republicans?Sometimes when Biden starts to speak, I involuntarily hold my breath, waiting for him to stumble over his words, or slur them or otherwise mangle his text in a way that will show up in clips on Fox News or MAGA Twitter.

President Joe Biden was enthusiastically applauded by a bipartisan gathering of city mayors at the White House this weekend when he said that, on matters of public safety, the answer is not to defund the police.They need more funding, Biden said in the East Room when speaking to a group from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Ocasio-Cortez said that McCarthy could offer Democrats committee leadership as a pathway to becoming speaker.Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez looks on as Republican House members-elects speak to one another during the second day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 4, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images As the Republican Party descends into chaos this week, failing six times to elect a new speaker of the House, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has suggested that Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (California) approach the Democrats with concessions if he wants to win the speakership.

In her first sit-down interview since her husband was attacked last month at their San Francisco home, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the assault was driven by misinformation and called for national healing."It's really sad because it was a flame fueled by misinformation," Pelosi said in an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday night on CNN.

Megyn Kelly and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) broke down the details surrounding the attack on Paul Pelosi last Friday and cast doubt on the San Francisco police narrative Kelly expressed frustration with those who are connecting the alleged attacker, David DePape, with January 6th instead of pointing out that he was a lunatic.

Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old longtime husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, was attacked "violently" by an intruder at the couple's San Francisco home early Friday.He is currently in the hospital, according to a statement from Nancy Pelosi, but is expected to make a full recovery.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was "violently" attacked in the couple's San Francisco home early Friday morning, according to a statement from the speaker's office.Drew Hammill, a spokesman for the Democratic speaker's office, said in the statement that an assailant broke into the couple's home and "violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi."

She knew what she was in for: the talking over her, the bluster, the alternate version of history, the controversy.She was as prepared as possible.And she was dressed for the arena.When Kaitlan Collins interviewed Donald J. Trump in his first appearance on CNN since 2016, moderating the Republican town hall on Wednesday, she did so in a pristine white pantsuit, thus immediately joining a long line of women who have gone face to face with the former president in that symbolic armor.

Texas Democratic Rep. Colin Allred announced a run for US Senate on Wednesday morning, entering the race to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024.We don't have to be embarrassed by our senator.We can get a new one, Allred said in his announcement video.Allred is a former NFL player, worked in the Obama administration, and has represented Texas' 32nd Congressional District since his first election in 2018, when he ousted GOP incumbent Rep. Pete Sessions.