Pelosi’s grip slips as Ocasio-Cortez and friends throw a party, leave the grandparents at home
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By Newt Gingrich (Original source Fox News)
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – and the old guard Democrats at large – are in a very difficult position.
The radical young voters that Democrats have been courting for years have finally elected like-minded radical young representatives – and Pelosi, D-Calif., and her leadership team have no control over them.
A big reason why, as I mentioned on “Hannity” this week, is that there is a wide generation gap between Democratic House leaders and freshmen Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and others.
The median year of birth for the 59 Democrats who assumed office this year is 1973. Sixteen of these members were born on or after 1980.
Nancy Pelosi was born in 1940. The average age of Democratic leaders is 71.”
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