Fudge endorses Pelosi for speaker, dropping potential challenge

[In It to Win It]

Rep. Marcia Fudge announced she would support Nancy Pelosi for speaker, just days after saying she might challenge the California Democrat.

Anti-Pelosi forces are working hard to deny her the 218 votes needed to become speaker but have yet to find anyone who will challenge her for the gavel.

Fudge said Pelosi had promised her an opportunity to work to protect voting rights and assured her that “the most loyal voting bloc in the Democratic party, Black women, will have a seat at the decision-making table.”

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[Hortensis]

1. So it was all a negotiating maneuver as expected.

I don't know what her colleagues think, but no doubt they at least understand. She's been in congress a long time, and here are all these freshmen coming in wanting unearned preferences in assignments in return for abandoning their sacred campaign promises to vote against her.

[Wintryjade]

2. Pelosi once again shows us her excellence as a leader.