House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday, making a bold prediction about November’s midterm elections while throwing shade on former President Donald Trump.
“I believe that we will hold the House,” Pelosi said. “We will hold the House by winning more seats. We won the 40 seats, then we lost some when Trump was on the ballot, we lost some on the Trump districts, but we held enough seats to hold the House with him on the ballot. He’s not on the ballot now.”
“Oh! Did I say his name? I didn’t mean to. Perhaps you could bleep that out,” the speaker said, to which Colbert jokingly affirmed that “it is a family show.”
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Colbert asked the speaker how she could be so confident amid polling that suggests the Republicans have the advantage. Pelosi noted the Democrats’ strategy has been to “own the ground,” bring inspiration through messaging, and raise money.
“We always believed we could win because we knew we had to, because our democracy was on the ballot, our planet was on the ballot. Everything was on the ballot in this election,” Pelosi said.
Colbert pointed out that the speaker was “talking in the past tense,” as if the election was already decided. Pelosi replied that she was referring to the needs of Democratic candidates who decided to run for office.
The speaker praised President Joe Biden for his leadership concerning legislation passed, including the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS Act. She noted that it is “beginning to have some appreciation in the public.”
Pelosi also said she desires “the truth” as the ideal outcome of the Jan. 6 hearings, praising the bipartisan committee’s investigation into Trump’s influence before dismissing more conversation about the former president.
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“But enough of him. About the future,” Pelosi chuckled as she went on to praise Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) for his leadership and Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) courage on the panel.
