Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi believes she knows who one of the candidates for president in 2028 will be, and it was not a name at the top of many lists.
The 85-year-old Democrat representative believes that former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will campaign for the Democratic nomination.
“I think he’s going to run,” she said in an interview with “The Free Press” published Friday.
In the same story, when Emanuel was asked how he was doing, he quipped, “I don’t have prostate cancer.”
It came after his brother, Zeke, said on MSNBC that he believes former President Joe Biden had cancer during his tenure in the White House.
“Oh yeah. He did not develop [prostate cancer] in the last 100 days, 200 days. He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that,” the former Chicago Mayor’s brother said.
When the former mayor spoke to The Free Press, he positioned himself as an old-school Democrat, not concerned with “woke” issues that have plagued his party as its approval rating has hit record lows.
“We can’t get distracted by the cultural issues and lose sight of what Americans care about and what impacts them, which is a shot at the American dream,” Emanuel said.
“We have to be able to stand up to the interest groups. We can’t look weak and woke,” he said.
He did not directly answer the reporter’s question about campaigning for president, saying, “Before I make a decision, I want to know that I have an answer to what I think ails our country, ails our politics, and ails the party—and they may all be the same answer.”
But he gave a pretty big hint to the reporter, Peter Savodnik, when he said, “I know what I want to do … We’ve got to get ready to fight for America—and that’s what I’m going to do.”
As for Pelosi, she has bigger concerns than who is going to be her party’s nominee for president in 2028, as her legacy is on the line.
Pelosi is the first female Speaker in American history and managed to keep even her slim majorities together for historic votes. And she may be regarded as one of the most consequential Speakers of all time.
However, her lasting legacy may be the establishment of a law named after her that prohibits members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks, following the fortune she and her husband accumulated over the decades, according to Fox News.
What is worse for the former Speaker is that the effort is bipartisan, with members of her own party signing on to support what has been dubbed in the Senate as the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act.
Missouri Republican Rep. Mark Alford introduced his version Wednesday to ban congressional stock trading, which he said is “complementary” to Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s legislation in the Senate.
“As public servants, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard and avoid the mere appearance of corruption,” Alford said in a press release. “Unfortunately, too many members of Congress are engaging in suspicious stock trades based on non-public information to enrich themselves. These gross violations of the public trust make clear: we must finally take action to ban members and their spouses from owning or selling individual stocks.”
“Members of Congress should be fighting for the people they were elected to serve—not day trading at the expense of their constituents,” Hawley said.
“Americans have seen politician after politician turn a profit using information not available to the general public. It’s time we ban all members of Congress from trading and holding stocks and restore Americans’ trust in our nation’s legislative body,” Hawley added.