Democrats are divided on whether House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., should retake the speaker’s gavel in the next Congress, according to new poll.

Almost half — 49 percent — of Democratic-leaning voters surveyed by SSRS for CBS News support Pelosi’s bid for the speakership. But two-in-five people also told researchers they would prefer another candidate when Democrats return to the majority in the new year; 10 percent did not know.

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