Nancy Pelosi faces Democratic ouster calls over lackluster 2020 results

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a Democratic reckoning as voters and politicians alike conduct a postmortem on what caused Democrats to shrink their majority in the House of Representatives.

Ahead of Tuesday’s election, House Democrats were poised to expand their majority in the lower chamber of Congress. Instead, voters chose to give House Republicans five new seats.

With hopes of a “blue wave” dashed, Pelosi’s ambitious legislative goals for the 2021 congressional calendar are in jeopardy as she faces the ever-increasing likelihood of a Republican-held Senate.

“It’s a dumpster fire,” one Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday of how the party performed on election night, speaking anonymously to Politico.