{"id":96779,"date":"2025-11-07T09:09:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/?p=96779"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:09:49","slug":"nancy-pelosi-wont-seek-another-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/2025\/11\/07\/nancy-pelosi-wont-seek-another-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi Won&#8217;t Seek Another Term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Ariana Figueroa, States Newsroom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who made history as the first woman to hold the speaker\u2019s gavel, announced Thursday she will retire, ending a 40-year legislative career as one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her announcement came after Tuesday\u2019s elections. Pelosi had a hand in crafting what was known as Proposition 50&nbsp; in California to redraw the state\u2019s congressional districts, in response to Republican redistricting efforts in Texas to gain more GOP seats in the House.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remap passed, and Democrats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/energized-dems-trumpet-wins-state-elections-buckle-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swept major state races<\/a>&nbsp;across the country, including the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a video posted to social media, Pelosi, 85, thanked her constituents in her San Francisco congressional district.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will not be seeking reelection to Congress,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cWith a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year in service as your proud representative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tributes to Pelosi poured in throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe made history as the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives, yes, but in that moment she also altered the way we conceive political power,\u201d said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. \u201cShe made the imaginary real, and for young people who knew no other world, she permanently shifted the boundaries of the possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ariana Figueroa, States Newsroom WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who made history as the first woman to hold the speaker\u2019s gavel, announced Thursday she will retire, ending a 40-year legislative career as one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.&nbsp; Her announcement came after Tuesday\u2019s elections. Pelosi had a hand in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-96779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uspolitics","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}