Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so confident of Democrats’ prospects in November that she’s started calling Rep. Hakeem Jeffries “Speaker Jeffries.”
Mrs. Pelosi, who led House Democrats for nearly two decades, including two stints herself as speaker, told colleagues she thinks they will net 30 seats in the election, easily flipping control of the House, where the GOP’s current majority is just several seats.
She also said Democrats could net the four seats needed to flip control of the Senate.
Mrs. Pelosi made her predictions at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee leadership conference in Seattle.
If it happens, she won’t be in Congress to enjoy the majority. She announced her retirement at the end of her 20th term.
Washington Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, had some advice for colleagues itching to regain the majority: Lay off the impeachment talk.
That notion drew applause from the other attendees.
