The 85-year-old Democrat, the first woman to serve as House speaker, announced Thursday that she is calling it quits after representing ultra-liberal San Francisco for nearly 40 years.
"I will not be seeking reelection to Congress," Pelosi said in a video address to voters.
Saying he agrees with President Donald Trump "wholeheartedly" that she is "an evil person," Kevin McGary of The Frederick Douglass Foundation of California tells AFN, "This is great news."
"She's quite deceptive," he notes. "She's manipulated her position and manipulated her actual income and her stock values over the years because of her position."
There is no publicly proven case of this, but the timing of some of her husband's trades have drawn substantial scrutiny and raised serious questions about possible conflicts of interest.
Also remembering the sight of the congresswoman tearing up President Trump's State of the Union speech in 2020 (pictured above), McGary looks forward to her departure.
"We won't have to see her lose her dentures and talk with slurred speech because of her alcoholism or tell us blatant lies about this and that," he muses. "It'll be important for the American citizens generally to not have to see her and deal with her diabolical ways and delusional ideas, and so I think all of America will be better served as a result of not having Nancy Pelosi there."
Pelosi plans to finish out her final year in office and has tasked her voters to carry on her legacy in the U.S. and internationally.
Her daughter, attorney Christine Pelosi, has been floated as a potential successor. Connie Chan of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, state Senator Scott Wiener, former tech executive Saikat Chakrabarti, and Jane Kim, the California Director for the Working Families Party and a former San Francisco supervisor, have also been mentioned.
Unlike other states, California has a "jungle primary," meaning all candidates are listed on the same ballot, regardless of party. The top two vote-getters then proceed to the general election, meaning two Democrats could square off next November for Pelosi's seat.
