Assuming reports from San Francisco are correct and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will soon announce her retirement from Congress, it is a foregone conclusion that there will be a hard-fought contest among San Francisco Democrats to succeed the only woman to have served as Speaker of the House and the second-longest serving woman in U.S. House history (the longest is Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur, who came to Congress in 1982—five years before Pelosi).
But the idea that Pelosi, as revered a figure as she is among liberals in Washington and nationwide, can handpick a successor is nearly out of the question, numerous California sources told Newsmax.
“Pelosi may have waited a bit too long to make this decision,” Jon Fleischmann, editor of Flash Report on California politics, told Newsmax.
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