Pelosi Knocks Newsom for Criticizing the Democratic Party
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) criticism of the Democratic Party over its approach to the issue of abortion. During an appearance on “Face the Nation,” host…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s(D) criticism of the Democratic Party over its approach to the issue of abortion.
During an appearance on “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan played a clip of Newsom’s comments about the issue.
“Where is the Democratic Party?” Newsom said at Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles last week.
He added, “Why aren’t we calling this out? This is a concerted, coordinated effort, and, yes they’re winning. We need to stand up. Where’s the counter-offensive?”
Pelosi responded, saying, “We have been fighting against the Republicans in the Congress constantly.”
She continued, “Because the fact is they’re not just anti a woman’s right to choose in terms of terminating a pregnancy, but in terms of access to contraception and family planning and the rest, both domestically and globally.”
Pelosi argued it is a “constant fight that we’ve had for generations – decades, I should say, in my case, in the Congress.”
She added, “We had been bipartisan early on, support for a woman’s right to choose, until the Politics