New York Post Columnist and Fox News Contributor Miranda Devine recently wrote a scathing opinion piece on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arguing that the California Democrat’s time in politics has come to a conclusion. Ultimately, Devine blamed Pelosi for the Democratic Party’s “electoral collapse,” where Republicans not only decisively conquered the presidency with the popular vote but also the House and Senate.
Devine began her critical commentary of Pelosi, “It’s high time to shatter the myth of Nancy Pelosi as a master strategist. Nobody deserves more blame than the ridiculously self-titled “speaker emerita” for the Democrats’ $1 billion electoral collapse.” She added, “Under her ruthless leadership, her party lost the White House, the House, the Senate and the popular vote. You can’t say that enough.”
The conservative columnist pointed out that under Pelosi’s leadership in the House, she was the only speaker in the history of Congress to lose the House twice. “She’s the only speaker in history to have lost control of the House twice. She’s finished,” Devine emphasized. Despite these leadership failures, Devine pointed out that Pelosi is still running for reelection. “Yet she still has the nerve to reward herself with another term, filing the papers last week to run for re-election in 2026, at the tender age of 86! She’ll be 88 at the end of Trump’s term,” she added.
The American Tribune reported on post-election comments where Pelosi flipped on Vice President Kamala Harris, suggesting that she was a poor choice of candidate despite fervently backing her throughout the campaign. Pelosi seemed to criticize Biden for immediately endorsing Harris upon his withdrawal, ostensibly thwarting an open primary process to select a different candidate.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said. “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.” The former House speaker further insinuated that because Biden endorsed Harris almost immediately after pulling out of the race, it was “impossible” to consider other prospective candidates.
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in [a primary] and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different,” Pelosi continued. “[Harris] had the endorsement of the president, and she, politically astutely, took advantage of it and shut down — not shut down, but won the nomination. But anybody else could have gotten in,” she said.
However, Pelosi had said during a September interview that there was in fact an open primary. “No, I didn’t change my mind. We had an open primary; she [Harris] won it. Nobody else got in the race,” she said. “Yes, people could have jumped in…there were some people who were sort of preparing, but she just took off with it, and actually it was a blessing because there was not that much time between then and the election and it sort of saved time.”
Watch Pelosi make an outrageous argument about Trump below:
