Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

[Celerity]

27. I hope the CPC is able to have a good deal of impact going forward, I was only showing it may well be a not so friendly

Dem leadership electoral (Committee or actual high overall Party leadership) environment for AOC atm and maybe for the next few cycles. That is especially true if Pelosi and others keep whipping votes against her, and Jeffries stays out of it.

Remember that in this recent Oversight Ranking member vote, the centrist/moderate (and largest Dem caucus now) New Democrat Coalition leaders came out mostly (if not all) in unison against AOC and in favour of the more moderate Connolly (who is a New Democrat Coalition member, so their stance their is hardly surprising. IF the member gap advantage that the NDC has over the CPC continues (or even grows post 2026 midterms) then it will be pretty hard yards for AOC to overcome IF the same forces unite again against her.

I have no idea how long Pelosi is going to stay in the House, but I fear as long as she is there, and the numbers internally do not change in favour of the progressives, she (Pelosi) will hold the AOC-blocking whip-hand that will block her when the full caucus votes. She has done so now (block AOC) on at least 2 occasions. The ex-Speaker has just a much (if not more) power in regards to these matters as current Speaker Jeffries apparently has (or at least it seems that way to me).