• Politics Nancy Pelosi Orphans Congressional Democrats

Democratic legislator Nancy Pelosi, 83 years old and former speaker of the US House of Representatives, announced Friday that in 2024 she will stand for re-election to try to keep her seat in San Francisco.

"Now more than ever our city needs us to promote San Francisco's values and our recovery. Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with freedom and justice for ALL. That's why I'm running for re-election and respectfully ask for your vote," he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

The first and only woman to preside over the House of Representatives in the history of the United States ceased to be in charge of that chamber after the Democrats lost the majority in the midterm elections of November 2022.

When that same month she announced her intention not to seek the leadership of the Democratic caucus in the opposition, Pelosi did make it clear that she would keep her seat representing the 12th District of San Francisco, which in 2024 she will try to keep.

Her decision to withdraw from the political front line was influenced by the attack on her husband in late October at the family home in San Francisco by a man who was looking for her.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and mother of five, Pelosi made history by becoming the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives in 2007, a position she held until 2011 when Democrats lost their majority in that chamber.

The representative for San Francisco was again the third in the presidential line of succession, behind the vice president, when she was reelected in January 2019 as the highest authority in Congress, a position she renewed in 2021.

At that time, his enmity with former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021) marked his trajectory. It was she who initiated the two political trials against him in 2019 for his pressure on Ukraine to investigate then-former Vice President Joe Biden and in 2021 for the storming of the Capitol on January 6 of that year, of which he was acquitted.

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