November 19, 2020
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Pelosi Wins reelection as House speaker

Democrats of the US House of Representatives have nominated Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the top of a party she has led since 2003, marking the longest period since 1961.

Pelosi, aged 80, was approved on Wednesday with a private caucus voice vote conducted virtually, reports Xinhua news agency.

The caucus also re-elected Steny Hoyer as Majority Leader and Jim Clyburn as Majority Whip.

All the three ran unopposed.

In a speech accepting the nomination, Pelosi vowed to work with President-elected Joe Biden to tackle issues including health care, environmental protections and police reforms.

“As we go forward with liberty and justice for all, we must do so listening to the American people, listening to each other with respect, acting to unify,” she told the caucus.

Pelosi will still need to secure a simple majority of the full House in January 2021 to be sworn in again as Speaker.

Addressing the media after the vote, Pelosi told reporters that her upcoming term as Speaker will be her last.

Signifying the deep political divisions in Washington, a new photo shows US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confronting President Donald Trump at a reportedly explosive White House meeting. In the image, leading Democrat Pelosi is standing up at a large table, surrounded by male Congressional leaders and top military officials, pointing her finger towards the President, who is seated opposite her and appears stunned.

“I don’t want to undermine any leverage I may have… But I made the statement,” she said.

During the 2020 presidential election, Republicans flipped nearly a dozen seats with several party candidates leading in uncalled races, said a The Hill report.

It added that House Democrats are expected to hold the thinnest majority in the next session since the World War II.

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