November 30, 2016: House Democrats reelect Nancy Pelosi as leaderWeeks after losing the presidency, House Democrats held a close, bitter contest to decide their future, and they decided to stay the course. Second, it locked the Republican Party and its PACs into the idea that the midterm could be framed as a choice between Trump and Pelosi. The president's party spent far too much time telling itself that the big cash hauls for Democratic House candidates would peter out. What was clear last summer was just how unsettled the Republican Party was and how the party was struggling to tame it. But the victory of Ocasio-Cortez over one of the top-ranking House Democrats turned her and her Democratic Socialist endorsers into national stars.

Source: Washington Post November 05, 2018 22:52 UTC