Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has expressed confidence that Republicans will keep management of the U.S. Home of Representatives, whereas Democratic leaders are holding out hope.
Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., mentioned management of the Home “has but to be determined,” PBS reported Nov. 8.
On Election Day, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., instructed the information outlet she believed “we are going to win the Home.”
A Nov. 6 Threads submit attributed one other assertion to the previous Home speaker.
“So Nancy Pelosi said in the present day that if the Democrats get the Home the very first thing they’re going to do is impeach Donald Trump earlier than he will get elected,” the submit mentioned. “I feel she ought to retire.”
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Pelosi received reelection Nov. 8 — and Trump additionally received a second time period. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, conceded to Trump on Nov. 6.
However we discovered no proof to assist the declare that Pelosi has vowed to question the president-elect.
Pelosi spokesperson Ian Krager instructed PolitiFact she didn’t say that.
Pelosi helped lead two impeachments in opposition to Trump throughout his first presidential time period, when she was nonetheless speaker, however in search of information protection of her purported feedback about impeaching him once more earlier than he “will get elected,” or takes workplace after a January inauguration, we discovered none.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., claimed in October that Home Democrats would impeach Trump if he was reelected.
“I predict that if they’ve the votes within the Home, they’re gonna begin impeachment proceedings the day after he walks into the White Home,” Rubio mentioned. “That’s how deranged they’ve change into about it.”
Pelosi, nevertheless, doesn’t have a file of constructing such a promise.
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