A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tells The Washington Examiner that Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., was wrong when he went on a North Carolina station to suggest that Pelosi would not run for a third term as speaker when the new Congress is sworn-in in January.
McIntyre, according to a story first reported in The Hill, told WWAY-TV that he heard she was “probably not,” going to run for Speaker.
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But that’s not true, according to those who work closely with Pelosi.
“The speaker’s focus is on Democrats and retaining majority, which we will. And she’ll remain as speaker,” said a top aides, who requested anonymity.
McIntyre, a member of the House Blue Dog Coalition of moderate Democrats, is in a tough reelection battle in the Tar Heel State’s 7th District and said that if Democrats keep the majority and he’s in it, he won’t vote for Pelosi and neither will some of his moderate colleagues.
The Speaker is elected by a simple majority vote in the House on the opening day of Congress.
