Pelosi: Close Race Between Trump and Clinton Only Helps Democrats

Pelosi: Close Race Between Trump and Clinton Only Helps Democrats (The Washington Free Beacon)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Thursday if Republicans think the race is tightening between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, it will benefit the Democrats’ attempt to recapture a House majority.

After saying she had no concerns about Clinton’s transparency in the wake of the party nominee’s health problems and delayed disclosure of her pneumonia diagnosis, Pelosi appeared to characterize the close White House race as imagined by the GOP.

“If you want to talk politics, I want Hillary Clinton to have the biggest possible mandate, but if the Republicans want to believe that this race is tightening, let them believe that, because the more our own people see that it’s important to vote in a tight race, it sort of speaks to that urgency, the more of them will turn out, so it works to our advantage,” she said.