Former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has filed for reelection in California’s 11th congressional district.
Pelosi will be 86 years old during the next election cycle.
A Pelosi spokesperson declined to tell The Washington Examiner whether she is running for reelection, but noted the paperwork indicates her intentions.
The Democrat has represented California in the House of Representatives since 1987. She was Speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023.
Some have blamed Pelosi for President Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race leading up to the 2024 election.
“People like Pelosi, she really tried to — what’s the word I’m looking for? — she embraced this ‘she’s the godmother, she’s the enforcer.’ And now she’s blaming Biden. Well, you can’t have it both ways. You got what you wanted, and now you’re still blaming Biden,” Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) told Politico.
“I think it’s really ironic that you have a woman at age 84 and she is still hanging on. Why not give a younger generation an opportunity to occupy that seat?” the senator continued.
Pelosi said during an interview with The New York Times that had Biden exited the race sooner, “there may have been other candidates in the race.”
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen,” she added. “We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”