J.D. Vance's campaign portrays opponent Tim Ryan as in lockstep with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, playing a clip of Ryan saying “I do love her.” Although the Democrats’ voting records are fairly aligned, the clip leaves out Ryan’s bid against her in 2016.
The clip omits an important"but;" Ryan went on to say that despite his love, it was time for a new Democratic leader in the U.S. House — Ryan himself. The clip was from 2016, when Pelosi was vying to remain the House minority leader after Trump’s presidential win.
"Tim Ryan doesn't sound like Nancy Pelosi, doesn't act like Nancy Pelosi, he's never lived a day in San Francisco, and he tried to dethrone her from leadership," said David Niven, political scientist and associate professor at the University of Cincinnati."To say that one of the few Democrats to ever mount a challenge to Nancy Pelosi's leadership is somehow a Pelosi clone is just silly.
"Let me just say, I love Nancy Pelosi," Ryan said on CNN on Nov. 16, 2016. Ryan said she was a"terrific fundraiser" and wasn’t at fault for Democrats losing the election.before, asking,"The question is, are we going to take the House back and can we take the House back?"By Gabrielle Settles • October 7, 2022, the same one that plays in Vance’s ad, Maddow asked what Ryan would do differently as the Democrats’ leader.
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