Democrat Governors Embrace Nancy Pelosi While House Dems Run From Her

Nancy Pelosi continues to be a large drag on her party, and as McClatchy reports today, Democrats “are beginning to see Pelosi as a 2018 problem.” But don’t tell that to Democrat governors.

Democrat governors are so out-of-touch, they recently signed up Nancy Pelosi as a fundraiser and collaborator, aligning their electoral future with her toxic image. As USA TODAY recently reported, Virginia’s Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe has even been shuttling Pelosi around the country to meet with donors focused on governors’ races.

If Democrat governors are counting on Nancy Pelosi to help them connect with voters, their minority of only 16 governors across the country could be in danger of shrinking even further as they prove to voters that Democrat candidates for governor can’t be trusted to lead.

McClatchy reports today:

“Nancy Pelosi might actually be in trouble.

In a survey of 20 Democratic House candidates, only one – a former Senate staffer from Orange County, California – would state support for the congresswoman staying on as leader of the House Democratic Caucus. Of the rest, 18 declined to say if Pelosi should keep her job, while one, a political newcomer from a culturally conservative Ohio district, said he would vote for someone other than Pelosi.

Pelosi’s own deep unpopularity has proven a major hindrance to Democrats in recent campaigns. After Democrats lost a special election in June, some party insiders blamed Pelosi directly.”

FLASHBACK from USA Today on July 26:

“After their party’s shocking White House defeat, top Democrats are shifting their efforts to rebuild political power by focusing on a series of governors’ races and redistricting legal battles. 

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Rep. Nancy Pelosi have been quietly courting major party donors during a series of weekend trips to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and New York in an effort to convince them to channel more funding to local and state elections — with a particular focus on the next generation of governors who will oversee redistricting around the 2020 Census — as well as legal challenges to gerrymandered congressional districts. 

The more we travel, people get it. I don’t say this lightly, but the future of our party comes down to these governor’s elections,’ said McAuliffe. ‘And to have Nancy Pelosi sitting next to me, who is Congress, saying this is very important,” he said.

McAuliffe and Pelosi’s collaboration began a day after the November election, when McAuliffe phoned Pelosi, who has plenty of demands from other organizations more directly impacting her House members, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.”