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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Pelosi really in trouble for the Speakership?
Or is this just a media inflamed smoke and mirrors routine?
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Is Pelosi really in trouble for the Speakership? (Original Post)
SHRED
Nov 2018
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unblock
(52,418 posts)1. she will be speaker. it's just negotiation.
what will she have to agree to first.
but it's very hard to imagine it won't be her.
Voltaire2
(13,234 posts)3. 9 idiots can't block her.
She has no reason to negotiate with them.
unblock
(52,418 posts)8. Yes, 9 is not enough. 17 or 18 would be another story.
They have little leverage unless they can get a few more democrats.
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)2. absolutely not. n/t
DinahMoeHum
(21,822 posts)4. Unless a name comes up as an alternative to her. . .
. . .this is much ado about nearly nothing.
skylucy
(3,747 posts)5. Nancy will be Speaker.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)7. Nancy will be speaker
malaise
(269,237 posts)9. No n/t
brooklynite
(94,851 posts)10. Neither...
She probably was never in trouble, and the media reporting on an actual news story wasn't "smoke and mirrors".