This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-caves-shutdown-reopens-government-speaker-nancy-pelosi-effective-5e247a05034a/

This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again
Trump caves.
Ian Millhiser
Jan 25, 2019, 2:19 pm


Nancy Pelosi has been speaker of the House for just 22 days, and she just humiliated the president of the United States.

Ever since President Donald Trump shut down much of the government last month, Pelosi has delivered a consistent message to Trump — “my offer to you is this: nothing.” On Friday, Trump took that offer, announcing his support for a short-term funding bill that will reopen the government for three weeks without any additional funding for a border wall.

Trump’s cave on Friday is absolute. He will reopen the government and he will not get his wall. Pelosi wins. Trump loses.

Trump agreed to take nothing after leading his party into the political abyss. An AP-NORC poll shows his approval rating at just 34 percent. Multiple polls show that solid majorities of the country blame Trump for his shutdown, while only about a third blame Democrats. Senate Republicans reportedly spent a Thursday lunch with Vice President Mike Pence sniping at each other. An angry Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), “This is your fault.”

Reopening the government for three weeks may seem like a temporary solution, but Republicans now know that they’ll be the ones in the barrel if they shut down the government again. Speaker Pelosi holds all the cards in the upcoming negotiation.

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Now Pelosi is in her second stint as speaker, and she has not lost a step. Republicans were so desperate to keep Pelosi out of the speaker’s chair because they know what she can do when she sits in it. The government will reopen. Trump gets nothing. And Nancy Pelosi once again led her party to victory.