Nancy Pelosi to hand her Congressional seat to her daughter?

Pelosi to hand seat to daughter? As rumors swirl Nancy will be forced to step down after midterms wipeout, her activist daughter Christine is favorite to take over . . . with a little help from her mom's fundraising machinery and contacts

• With rumors she plans to step down if a red wave hits in Tuesday's midterms, plans have already begun to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 
• Pelosi, has served in Congress since 1987 and on two occasions as speaker
• A story published Friday suggested that if Democrats suffer the expected midterms losses, Pelosi will step down, leaving her San Francisco seat open 
• Multiple local politicians appear to be setting up for a potential run at her district in 2024 
• One of the people who could be running for the seat: Pelosi's daughter, Christine, who is an activist, ex-assistant district attorney and former congressional chief of staff

With rumors she plans to step down if a red wave hits Congress in Tuesday's midterms, plans have already begun to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California's 12th congressional district.

Pelosi, 82, has served in Congress since 1987 and on two occasions as speaker

One of the people who could be running for the seat is Pelosi's daughter, Christine, a Democratic activist who has served as a proxy for her politician mother, if her seat were to open.

Multiple local politicians appear to be setting up for a potential run at her district in 2024

Plans have already begun to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California's 12th congressional district in the event she steps down if Democrats lose in Tuesday's elections

 Christine, 56, often appears with her mother at various events and even wrote a book about her in 2019: 'The Nancy Pelosi Way: Advice on Success, Leadership, and Politics from America's Most Powerful Woman'

Nancy, Paul and Christine Pelosi at the 2017 funeral of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee

That could potentially make Christine the third generation in a long-running political dynasty, as her grandfather and Nancy's father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. was a real estate broker who served in Congress from 1939 to 1947 and as mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1947 to 1959. 

Christine Pelosi, 56, often appears with her mother at various events and even wrote a book about her in 2019: 'The Nancy Pelosi Way: Advice on Success, Leadership, and Politics from America's Most Powerful Woman.' 

Her political work goes into California Democratic Party positions, including a decade-long stint as chair of the state party's women's caucus. 

She's also served in Washington as a staffer in the Clinton White House as a special counsel in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Pelosi was a Chief of Staff to Representative John Tierney from 2001 to 2005. 

The speaker's daughter also has been affiliated with the Young Democrats of America. Most prominently, she was one of California's delegates to the Democratic National Committee and an elector for the state in 2016. 

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, she also served as legal counsel to an ongoing campaign to end workplace harassment, going so far as to tell lawmakers in Sacramento: 'There are rapists in this building' during a public address. 

Nancy Pelosi can be seen at left in this 1961 photo of her father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., speaking with President John F. Kennedy after taking the oath to become a member of the Federal Renegotiation Board

Christine, who is married to film producer Peter Kaufman, has created controversy in recent years with some of her comments online, including a since-deleted 2020 tweet that read: 'Rand Paul's neighbor was right' after the Republican senator was assaulted by a man who lived next door. 

Paul mocked Pelosi's tweet when offering well-wishes to her father after he was hospitalized. 

She's even antagonized her fellow Democrats: Prior to his victory in a recall election, she said that California Gov. Gavin Newsom should've resigned if it appeared he was going to lose. 

Pelosi also antagonized party insiders by trying to get Democrats to stop taking corporate money and attempting to get a debate on climate change into the 2020 Democratic Primary.

Pelosi has created controversy in recent years with some of her comments online, including a since-deleted tweet that 'Rand Paul's neighbor was right' after the Republican senator was assaulted by a man who lived next door in 2020

While never holding elected office herself, she's authored two books seen as training for people who want to run campaigns.  

Outside of politics, Pelosi has been a blogger for the Huffington Post and serves on the charity board of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants. 

According to a Politico story, many see Pelosi, 56, as the favorite to replace her mother should she throw her name in, with the potential backing of the party apparatus.

Her uncle, Thomas D'Alesandro III, was also mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971. 

Pelosi's uncle, Tommy D'Alesandro III, also served as mayor of Baltimore

While Speaker Pelosi is one of the wealthiest members of Congress - with a net worth of up to $120 million, according to Yahoo Finance - her brother famously declined to run for a second term, claiming he couldn't afford to raise five children on a mayor's salary, the Washington Post said upon his 2019 death.   

Pelosi's advantages are seen as being connections within the party, ties to Dems in Washington and the possibility of having her mother's considerable fundraising behind her. 

The presence of Speaker Pelosi appears to have many San Francisco Dems on eggshells. 

Todd David, a former political director for another candidate, said: 'From a pure practical, political point of view, no one wants to offend Nancy Pelosi.'

It's clear from the story and Dem consultant Max Szabo that the battle is already underway.

Szabo said: 'Given the fact that these positions don't have term limits, and given the ATM that is San Francisco, this is going to be a brawl. No one is going to leave anything on the field.' 

Reader comments:

Keeping it in her disgusting grifter family

I guess this whole thing is a family dynasty, Kinda like the Kim family of N.Korea.

Rosemary's baby.

Satan and his minions have nothing over the Nancy Pelosi Crime Empire!!!

That's all the US needs. The spawn of Satan.

So this was the one that was happy when Rand Paul was attacked? What are her feelings now? Still the same?

The only thing Nanzi has done is make millions on deals and insider trading.

Pelosi wants to do to America what she's done for San Francisco - make it a sh_t hole.