SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi, the primary feminine speaker of the Home and one of the vital highly effective girls in fashionable American politics, will retire from Congress subsequent yr.
The San Francisco Democrat, who introduced her resolution Thursday, had come beneath growing strain to step apart amid her occasion’s widening generational divide. Now 85, she defied political observers in 2023 when she ran for a twentieth congressional time period regardless of Democrats shedding the Home and her speakership the yr earlier than. However subsequent yr, she confronted a tougher-than-expected group of main challengers.
“I can’t be looking for re-election to Congress. With a grateful coronary heart, I look ahead to my closing yr of service as your proud consultant,” Pelosi stated in a prolonged and emotional video posted on social media and addressed to San Franciscans.
Some of the formidable political tacticians of her era, Pelosi had deflected hypothesis for months about her plans. Her announcement got here two days after California voters overwhelmingly accredited a measure to redraw the state’s congressional map to favor Democrats in subsequent yr’s midterm elections.