After Nancy Pelosi, who?

[Stinky The Clown]

Disclaimer: I support her as speaker for as long as she wishes to serve. If I had my wish, she's be speaker for life.

So, with my bias made clear, who do you think should succeed her? And if you care to, why?

[CareerGuyMA]

1. After Pelosi who?

Adam Schiff

[JI7]

3. no, Schiff is better on committees and dealing with those issues

the speaker spends time on counting votes for legislation

[JI7]

2. it will be one of those who hold leadership positions under her

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[democratisphere]

4. Nancy Pelosi is immortal.

She won't need to be replaced in our lifetime.

[moonscape]

5. She agreed to step down in 2022 during

negotiations for leadership. Wish she hadn’t done that but she obviously thought she had to for unity.

[JI7]

16. she probably only did that because she had already planned to retire then

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Ha! I thought the same thing!

[moonscape]

22. Ah, now that makes sense n/t

[superpatriotman]

6. Adam Schiff

Nt

[myohmy2]

7. AOC...

...beyond a doubt...

...

[Polybius]

12. No

I have nothing against her, but if she's Speaker in January 2023, then we're in big trouble in November 2024. I like her but not at the expense of the Party.

[Dorian Gray]

14. hah

Maybe one day. But way not yet.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. In a few years, without question, AOC will be ready!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[leftieNanner]

30. I hope she runs for the White House some day!

Nt

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. Oh, I'm sure AOC WILL run... and be President one day!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[tritsofme]

8. Hakeem Jeffries, the #5 House Democrat has gotten a lot of buzz lately.

[Irishxs]

9. Totally Agree. Hakeem Jeffries makes sense.

[UniteFightBack]

10. Yeah I really like this guy. nt

[Kurt V.]

26. yes.

[UTUSN]

11. Gently I ask that we savor our moment of excellent leadership here and now.

[brush]

13. Please, no time for this now. She's been in for 3 months and doing great job. Go away.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Oh stop it. "Go Away"? Why?

That's not rhetorical. The question is serious. Why should I go away because YOU said so?

a) read the OP disclaimer.

b) Why should I go away?






And you're factually wrong. She's been Speaker two years and three months.

[brush]

23. Much more pressing things to do, like getting the full Mueller report, chosing a nominee who can...

beat trump in 2020, keeping the House in 2020 and trying to take the Senate in 2020.

And she's been Speaker this time for 3 months.

[Stinky The Clown]

33. Whatever you say, champ.

[brush]

34. Priorities.

[murielm99]

15. Cheri Bustos,

mark my words. She is being groomed for the spot.

Of course, Nancy can serve as long as she likes. She is wonderful.

[Blue_true]

24. Yeah, Bustos seems to be the most likely.

It seems that she is quietly building support among democrats, as is Jeffries.

But Speaker Pelosi knows what she is doing in these troubled times. She is the one that we need guiding us.

[rpannier]

27. Bustos would work

[brooklynite]

18. Hakeem Jeffries will be a likely candidate

[DFW]

21. My two choices probably wouldn't want the job, preferring to chair their respective committees

Those would be Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff.

I rather suspect that Pelosi is seriously looking at possible successors for later on. She is known for playing the long game. I've never met Cheri Bustos in person, though I've chatted with her on the phone. She is personable, bright and hard-working, though I don't know if she has the killer instinct a good Speaker needs to have hidden just behind the obligatory smile.

[applegrove]

25. She is on 60 Minutes right now.

[Stinky The Clown]

35. A good profile of the Speaker, even if a bit shallow and a tiny bit vapid.

Speaker Pelosi has the constitution of a woman decades younger than her years.

I hope she serves for many more years. Our job is to give her a Democratic House for term after term.

[applegrove]

36. Yes. I hope her health stays a young 55 for the next 20 years. She is wonderful.

[rpannier]

28. Bustos

She has shown herself to be a hard worker, she works well across the spectrum of the Democratic caucus and, contrary to what some think here, the camps to teach people to run for office didn't begin after il douche; in 2014 she had started training people to run for local offices in western Illinois.
She's my congressional representative.
Oh, and she actually weeds into areas of her district where she isn't that popular to meet with people who may not like her/her policies

[murielm99]

31. I am in the 16th,

but I support Bustos financially and go to some of her events. She is indeed a hard worker. Dick Durbin has mentored her since she was a youngster babysitting for his children.