Over at the Huffington Post, Jennifer Bendery interviewed Nancy Pelosi about Tim Ryan’s challenge for her leadership post. In case you were thinking it’s a friendly contest, Pelosi wasted no time pulling out the flamethrower.

Pelosi called Ryan’s charges that she’s trying to increase her own power within the caucus “almost pathetic.” She also objected in strenuous terms to the idea that she is out of touch with the sort of white working-class Democrats who just re-elected Ryan but also voted in large numbers for Donald Trump.