{"id":378319,"date":"2025-12-29T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378319\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:19:08","slug":"nancy-pelosi-predicts-democrats-will-retake-us-house-in-2026-midterms-nancy-pelosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378319\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi predicts Democrats will retake US House in 2026 midterms | Nancy Pelosi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats will retake the US House\u2019s majority in the 2026 midterm elections, the chamber\u2019s former speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> has confidently predicted \u2013 and she hopes her party colleagues then seize back the congressional power that Republicans have all but ceded to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Asked Sunday on ABC News\u2019s This Week if she had any doubts over whether Democratic New York congressman Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> would hold the speaker\u2019s gavel after the elections midway through Trump\u2019s second presidency, Pelosi said<\/a>: \u201cNone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHakeem Jeffries is ready,\u201d the 20-term California congresswoman remarked in an interview with This Week co-anchor Jonathan Karl. \u201cHe\u2019s eloquent, he\u2019s respected by the members, he is a unifier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Pelosi told Karl that \u201cwhen\u201d Democrats<\/a> win the House back, they need to reclaim powers of Congress that she maintained have mostly been handed over to Trump by the Republican-led legislative branch.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, Republicans in the Congress have abolished the Congress,\u201d said Pelosi, who was US House speaker from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to 2023. Generally, Pelosi added: \u201cThey just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat ends as soon as we have the gavel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi is far from alone in her prediction. With Trump\u2019s approval rating down to 36% and disapproval rising to 60% in a November Gallup poll, Republicans have been girding themselves for a trouncing in the 2026 midterms, as the Guardian reported<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n

Beside the president\u2019s evident unpopularity, there\u2019s substantial history showing the party that holds the White House usually endures losses in midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Several Republicans senators amid all that have announced they are not running for re-election in the midterms, including Kentucky\u2019s Mitch McConnell, North Carolina\u2019s Thom Tillis, Iowa\u2019s Joni Ernst and Alabama\u2019s Tommy Tuberville. And more than two dozen House Republicans have indicated that they do not intend to try to retain their seat, causing some to wonder whether all of those officeholders are deserting what they fear to be a sinking ship.<\/p>\n

Pelosi herself declared in November that she would retire at the end of her final term in early 2027. The 85-year-old has cited her age as a major factor in her decision, coming at the end of a career that saw her become the first woman to serve as US House speaker after joining Congress in 1988 to represent San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, she told ABC that she considered returning the House speaker\u2019s gavel to a Democrat to be one of her last pieces of unfinished business.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy and large, the American people are good people \u2013 and I would like to \u2026 take us back to a place where governance and politics understand that,\u201d Pelosi told Karl. \u201cSo what\u2019s next for me is \u2026 that we try to take the discussion to a place that believes in the goodness of the American people \u2013 that gives them hope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats will retake the US House\u2019s majority in the 2026 midterm elections, the chamber\u2019s former speaker Nancy Pelosi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-378319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}