'Hakeem Jeffries Will Be The Speaker': Nancy Pelosi Warns House GOP 'The Election Is Coming Soon'

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During a Medicaid Day of Action press briefing on Tuesday, Speaker Emerita Pelosi (D-CA) spoke about upcoming midterm elections.

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00:00Hi, Monica Madden, ABC 7.

00:04How are you all, obviously there are fewer Senate Republicans who are in support of these

00:09cuts, just given the nature of the districts compared to the House, I mean, how are you

00:12all leveraging that divide in terms of negotiations and, you know, hopefully bringing that back

00:18to what ends up in the House?

00:25We've had all too many experiences, I think in the Congress and both Houses, of hearing

00:30very private reservations of many of our Republican colleagues, and seeing those private reservations

00:37not materialize into public demonstrations of their conviction.

00:42And so I take with a grain of salt when I hear my Republican colleagues talk about how

00:48they don't support some of what the administration is doing, until they start voting that way,

00:53it's not going to be meaningful.

00:54Now, they are hearing from their constituents, and they know as well as we do on the Democratic

01:00side of the aisle that if they go through with this massive cut to Medicaid, their states

01:04are going to be even more adversely impacted.

01:07As a percentage of their constituents, they're going to be just in dire straits.

01:14Our state doesn't have the resources to compensate for loss of this money, their states certainly

01:18don't.

01:19So there's going to be a point where they're going to have to demonstrate the public courage

01:26necessary to reject this.

01:28I think they're all waiting for the President's honeymoon to come to an end.

01:32It is coming to an end before they will be willing to speak out and to act out in a way

01:40that protects people's health care.

01:43Actually, we had a third way this time, we had a resolution that would be bipartisan,

01:50and both of the top Democrat in the House and the Senate, Patty Moran and Rosa DeLauro,

01:56introduced that legislation.

01:58It was well known to the Republicans, and that could have been a path that was said

02:03to the Republicans, you can give us this resolution.

02:09If they said no, they would have shut down government.

02:12But to a larger sense of your question, their elections are right around the corner in the

02:20House.

02:21I'm just being at the House.

02:22Right around the corner.

02:23Between March and September, they'll figure out whether they're going to run again, because

02:27his numbers will come down, and their constituents will be telling them what they think of how

02:34they're voting.

02:35So in the course of this five, six months, they have to either vote better, or understand

02:43that the election is coming soon.

02:46Hakeem Jeffries will be the Speaker of the House, if I may talk civics, or if you want

02:52to call it politics.

02:54And they know that.

02:56So again, when you say leverage, elections are the elections.

03:00People's vote is their voice in all of this.

03:04I'm wondering if you could name any Republican colleagues that you think are most likely

03:10to come on your side on this issue.

03:14I can, but I won't.

'Hakeem Jeffries Will Be The Speaker': Nancy Pelosi Warns House GOP 'The Election Is Coming Soon'

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