"The morning after Democrat Conor Lamb's electoral upset in a Pennsylvania House district that backed Donald Trump by 20 points, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi shrugged off questions about whether she was worried that the candidate had campaigned on a pledge to replace her.
"We won," said the ever-confident Pelosi. "I just wanted him to win."
Pelosi has been the reluctant star of GOP attack ads for years, typically cast as a stereotypical San Francisco liberal who wants to raise taxes and collect all the guns.
And in an election year where there is a chance she could once again lead the Democratic caucus to the majority and become House speaker, expect Republicans to flood the airwaves with ads connecting candidates to the long-serving leader.
But as Lamb's campaign showed, the Democratic Party appears to have an unconventional new strategy for dealing with anti-Pelosi campaign ads in 2018: Disavow her.
Rather than defend Pelosi or try to change the subject, Democratic candidates are being given leeway — at least unofficially — to buck her if that's what's needed to win a seat in a conservative-leaning district — or even in a moderate one, since voters seem to be asking for broad change."
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pelosi-republican-campaigns-20180322-story.html
"We won," said the ever-confident Pelosi. "I just wanted him to win."
Pelosi has been the reluctant star of GOP attack ads for years, typically cast as a stereotypical San Francisco liberal who wants to raise taxes and collect all the guns.
And in an election year where there is a chance she could once again lead the Democratic caucus to the majority and become House speaker, expect Republicans to flood the airwaves with ads connecting candidates to the long-serving leader.
But as Lamb's campaign showed, the Democratic Party appears to have an unconventional new strategy for dealing with anti-Pelosi campaign ads in 2018: Disavow her.
Rather than defend Pelosi or try to change the subject, Democratic candidates are being given leeway — at least unofficially — to buck her if that's what's needed to win a seat in a conservative-leaning district — or even in a moderate one, since voters seem to be asking for broad change."
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pelosi-republican-campaigns-20180322-story.html