"This is not anything personal between me and Nancy Pelosi". I am a strategic, politically astute leader. "My leadership is recognized by many around the country, and that is why I'm able to attract the support I do".
Following the Democrat Jon Ossoff's defeat in a Georgia special House election, some Democratic lawmakers have voiced their concerns about the party's future.
The reality is that Republicans have represented the Georgia 6th since 1979, and Handel replaces Tom Price who became the Health and Human Services secretary.
Georgia wasn't the only state to hold special elections this week as Republican Ralph Norman beat Democrat Archi Parnell with 51.1 percent of the vote in SC, 5th Congressional District.
Several prominent Democrats said the party needed to rethink its approach heading into next year's congressional elections, when Democrats need to pick up 24 seats to regain control of the House of Representatives.
At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Pelosi defended her leadership against mounting criticism from her own party and attacks from Republicans.
Maybe. But the fact that Karen Handel won anyway, in a suburban Atlanta district Trump carried by only 1.5 points, also shows the muscle-building incline Democrats face in attempting to flip the House.
President Donald Trump claimed hard-fought congressional victories Wednesday, intensifying an already hard day of questions for Capitol Hill Democrats. "That would be very bad for the Republican Party".
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Pelosi brushed off the tweet, contending that Trump hadn't actually written it himself because "it's a classic Republican line".
Meanwhile, the knives seem to be out for Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who was demonised by the GOP side in the Georgia race. In this June 9, 2017 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speakson Capitol Hill in Washington. Rosen is a likely candidate for Senate against the most endangered GOP Senate incumbent, Dean Heller of Nevada.
Put on defense, House Democratic leaders from Pelosi on down tried to spin the outcome in Georgia as positive, arguing that coming in a close second in the solidly Republican district augured well for their chances of taking back the House next year. "I'm a democrat and those are the issues I am focusing on and I think those are the issues most people care about whether they voted for trump or whether they are a member of a labor union or whether they are not", said Schiavoni.
"I think I'm worth the trouble, quite frankly".
Thursday afternoon, according to Politico, a group of disgruntled House Democrats huddled behind closed doors to plot the ouster of the embattled Minority Leader.
As the map stands now, Democrats arguably don't need to take a win in Georgia to take back control of the House for the first time since 2010.
"The public is a lot smarter than people give them credit for", Bloomberg added.
In November, Moulton threw his support behind Ryan for the leadership position, saying the OH congressman would give the party a better chance to regain the majority by appealing to working class voters from the industrial Midwest who supported Donald Trump for president. "We may have some different beliefs, but we are apart of one community... the community of the 6th district.", stated Handel during her victory speech.
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