Pelosi: Schumer and I Are ‘The Voices for Winning’ Back Congress

Pelosi: Schumer and I Are ‘The Voices for Winning’ Back Congress (The Washington Free Beacon)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) described herself and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) as the "voices for winning" back the majorities in their respective chambers in the 2018 midterm elections.

In an interview with KTVU anchor Ken Wayne published Tuesday, Pelosi discussed the Democratic Party's hopes of taking back the majority from the Republicans. The GOP has held the House since 2010 and the Senate since 2014.

Pelosi said the situation was similar to the preconditions to Democrats taking back the chambers in 2006, the second midterm of George W. Bush's presidency. Historically, the party of the incumbent president struggles in midterms; Barack Obama's Democrats suffered brutal losses in 2010 and 2014, and Bush's Republicans in 2006 took a "thumping," as Bush put it.