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Pelosi’s Middle East Tea Leaves

A surprise trip abroad, scheduled for the day after the midterms, has reignited speculation in Washington that the House Speaker is preparing to leave her post—and moving to cement her diplomatic legacy.

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Pelosi doesn’t need to physically be on the Hill to line up her leadership in the next congress. Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP
Tara Palmeri
October 20, 2022

Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to leave the country shortly after the election—on November 9, in fact, literally the next day. This has many of the tea-leaf readers surrounding her interpreting that she will not be whipping the votes to run for leader while she’s away on a state visit. The location of the visit is in the Middle East, but her office claims I will jeopardize her security if I report the exact location, which I obviously do not want to do, even though her trip to Taiwan was highly publicized in advance.