The Democratic legislator Nancy Pelosi83 years old and former president of the House of Representatives American, announced this Friday that in 2024 he will run for re-election to try to keep his seat in San Francisco. “Now more than ever our city needs us to promote the values of San Francisco and our recovery. Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with freedom and justice for all. That is why I am running for re-election and I respectfully ask for your vote,” he said on X (formerly Twitter).
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The one who has been the first and only woman to preside over the House of Representatives in the history of the United States stopped leading that chamber after the Democrats lost their majority there in the mid-term elections in November 2022. When that same month he announced his intention not to seek the leadership of the Democratic bench in the opposition, he did make it clear that he was going to maintain his seat representing San Francisco’s 12th District, which in 2024 it will try to preserve. Her decision to withdraw from the political front line was influenced by the attack that her husband suffered at the end of October at the family home in San Francisco by a man who was looking for her.
Born in Baltimore (Maryland) and mother of five children, Pelosi made history by becoming the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives in 2007, a position she held until the Democrats lost their majority in that chamber in 2011. The representative from San Francisco was once again the third in the presidential line of succession, behind the vice president, when she was re-elected in January 2019 as the highest authority in Congress, a position that she renewed in 2021. During that time, her enmity with former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021). Pelosi was the one who initiated the two impeachment trials against Trump in 2019 for his pressure on Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and in 2021 for the assault on the Capitol on January 6 of that year, of which he was acquitted.