Democrats were prepared for a red wave and everything indicated major losses on their part but record numbers hit the polls and changed history. Historically speaking, the part of the president never does well in the midterms and while Democrats can’t claim victory from this election, they weren’t exactly crushed, either.
CNN’s Dana Bash conducted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s first interview since the alleged attack on her husband. There, Pelosi claimed credit for the shifting tide.
Bash asked, “you alluded to this when I asked about your husband. But I just want to ask specifically and kind of point-blank about the fact that there has been such extremism, such political violence, and what happened to your husband was horrific. Do you think that that had an impact on voters as they cast their ballots?”
Pelosi smirked, “I know what people tell me, that’s anecdotal. We always say the plural of anecdote is not data, necessarily, but it is a trend in what I’m hearing.”
“It wasn’t just the attack, it was the Republican reaction to it which was disgraceful, and that I think really–the attack is horrible. Imagine how I feel as the one who was the target and my husband paying the price and the traumatic effect on our family, but that trauma is intensified by the ridiculous disrespectful attitude that the Republicans–there’s nobody dissociating themselves from the horrible response that they gave to it.
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DANA BASH: Madam Speaker, you alluded to this when I asked about your husband. But I just want to ask specifically and kind of point-blank about the fact that there has been such extremism, such political violence, and what happened to your husband was horrific. Do you think that that had an impact on voters as they cast their ballots?
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: I know what people tell me, that’s anecdotal. We always say the plural of anecdote is not data, necessarily, but it is a trend in what I’m hearing. It wasn’t just the attack, it was the Republican reaction to it which was disgraceful, and that I think really–the attack is horrible. Imagine how I feel as the one who was the target and my husband paying the price and the traumatic effect on our family, but that trauma is intensified by the ridiculous disrespectful attitude that the Republicans–there’s nobody dissociating themselves from the horrible response that they gave to it.
BASH: Did it turn voters off?
PELOSI: They tell me so.