Nancy Pelosi Can’t Cite a Single Democratic Party Leader

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

On March 21, 2017, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sat down for an interview with fellow multimillionaire Anderson Cooper on CNN. Though the discussion mostly consisted of softball questions about the Trump administration, Pelosi managed to provide the kind of tone-deaf responses that have made her widely disliked by the public.

Cooper asked Pelosi who she thought was leading the Democratic Party. Pelosi, not surprisingly, didn’t have an answer. “Well, President Obama was the president of the United States until just a matter of weeks ago,” she said. “I don’t think that he can be dismissed as the leader of the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton did not win the election, but she is a respected leader. But we have leaders for all different aspects of it.”

Pelosi’s suggestion that former President Barack Obama is the leader of the party is inconceivable, especially since he does not currently hold office and has been on vacation since Donald Trump’s inauguration. Pelosi likely cited Obama due to his popularity among voters; he has the highest ratings among Democrats aside from Sen. Bernie Sanders. Pelosi failed to mention Sanders as a leading figure because of the Democratic leadership’s prevailing consensus that Sanders isn’t a “real Democrat.” Her suggestion that Hillary Clinton is the leader of the party is strange given that she does not hold elected office, repels millions of voters and has run two failed presidential campaigns—despite being the presumed front runner in both.

As an excuse for why she couldn’t name any leaders for the Democratic Party, Pelosi added, “We’re not in a presidential time.” Pelosi likely didn’t cite herself or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer because she is aware of her and Schumer’s unpopularity. Nor did Pelosi mention anyone else currently in office because she knows there aren’t any popular Democrats in office.

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