Pelosi: House campaigns may split from Bernie Sanders agenda

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Democrats would campaign on a “mainstream, nonmenacing agenda” and would not tout the socialist proposals put forward by Bernie Sanders if he is chosen as the party’s presidential nominee.

Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters Thursday the responsibility of House party lawmakers “is to win the House” and said her caucus won back the majority from Republicans in 2018 “by owning the ground with our mobilization, not yielding one grain of sand by messaging a bold, progressive agenda that was mainstream and nonmenacing and having the money to advance our cause with our message and our ground game.”